DIVORCE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 65, 17 March 1944, Page 6

DIVORCE DAY

UNDEFENDED SUITS

NEARLY THIRTY DECREES

A list of 20 divorces and six restitution petitions came before Mr. Justice Johnston for hearing to-day. Gwendoline TheJma Killip (Mr. Fleming) said she was married in 1936 and had two children. One day in September last her husband* Leslie GeTgc Killip, brought a young woman to their home and spent the nicht with her despite petitioners rotests. A fortnight later the same thing happened and witness walked out of the home after arranging for the care of the children. A decree n;si was granted, with costs on the lowest scale against the respondent.

Seaman's Petition Aubrev Cecil Dobson, seaman, saM married in Wellington in 1930. When he was with a ship in New Guinea over two years ago he received a letter from his wife saying she was living with another man in Auckland. His ship was lost and the letter with it. When he returned to New Zealand he found that his wife, Adrian Glasgow Dobson, was living with another man as MA" witness testified that she lived in an apartment house where petitioner's wife lived as Mrs., Smith with a man other than the petitioner. A decree nisi was granted. Airman's Experience Clive Alfred Roland Hewitt said he Was married in 1936 to Ella Patricia Hewitt and had two children. In July 1042, he went overseas with the Air Force, and when away he received letters indicating that things were not going right at home. He returned in January and went to his wife's home at Otahuhu, where he found her with a man named George B. Marcoix, and she told him she and Marcoix were in love. His wife told the petitioner she would not live with him again. He subsequently got admissions from them that they had committed adultery and wished to get married. After further evidence of admissions by the respondent and co-re-spondent had been given, a decree nisi was granted. Decrees of Restitution Decrees directing restitution of conjugal rights within 14 days were granted in the following petitions:—William Ryan Stirling (Mr. Wily) V. Doris Nina Stirling; Jean Helen Aloran (Mr. Webster) v. Arthur Desmond Moran; Roy Ronald Morgan (Mr. Robinson) v. Rona Elizabeth Morgan; Reynold Cosmia Lee (Mr. Robinson) V. Ira Adelaide Lee; Vincent Disney O'Halloran (Mr. Robinson) v. Margaret Olive O'Halloran; William Henderson Gordon (Mr. Robinson) v. Sylvia Necna Gordon. On Various Grounds Decrees of divorce were granted as follow on various grounds:—Thomas Francis Haydon (Mr. Dickson) v. Mary Haydon (Mr. Henry) and W. J. Russell (Mr. Hough); Agne.s May Wood (Mr. Hough) v. Arthur Richard Wood; Katherine Grace Lewis (Mr. Wallace) v. Robert Lewis; Alfred Henry Woon (Mr. Adams) v. Lola Mary Woon (Mr. Dickson); John Edward Mortimer (Mr. Biernacki) v. Christina Mortimer; Rhoda Matilda Bice (Mr. Wily) v. Arthur Bice (Mr. Henry); Violet Klhine Sutton (Mr. Townshend) v. James William Sutton; Edna May Walker (Mr. G. Skelton) v. Frederick Leslie Walker; Phyllis May Kirkus (Mr. Townshend) V. Edmonil Herman George Kirkus; Sperry James Bryers (Mr. G. Skelton) v. Eunice Dorothea Bryers and Charles William Crisp; Jean Elfrieda Bradshaw (Mr. G. Skelton) v. George Bradshaw (Mr. Townshend): Patricia Margaret Pickworth (Mr. G. Skelton) v. Taire Herbert Hazzell Pickworth: William Henry Webb (Mr. Ross) v. Kathleen Webb; John Cecil Andrews (Mr. Ross) v. Ruby Violet Andrews: Therese Mary Margaret Bennett (Mr. Robinson) v. Stuart George Bennett (Mr. Urquhart): Esme Doreen Fielding (Mr. Townshend) v. Harry Fielding (Mr. Haigh); Wilfred George" Lawson (Mr. Noble) v. Eileen Lawson and Alexander Francis Tlmmlns; Victoria Irving Penman (Mr. Robinson) v. Gilbert Archibald Penman; Lawrence Henry Claasen (Mr. Robinson) v. Kate Claasen (Mr. A. K. Turner); Edward Walter Rix (Mr. G. Skelton) v. Elizabeth Rix; Sylvester John Dargan (Mr. Robinson) v. Mavis Lillian Dargan; Dora Elsie Aroha Findlay (Mr. Robinson) v. Bernard James Findlay; George Albert Heaps (Mr. Robinson) v. Lena Heaps: Jean Welsford (Mr. Robinson) v. Francis Joseph Welsford; Keith Roy Morgan (Mr. Robinson) v. Mavis Mary Morgan: Kenneth Scott Leigh (Mr. Ford) v. Christine Leigh and William Nelson.