NUMBER OF DECREES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 7

NUMBER OF DECREES

UNDEFENDED DIVORCES

RESTITUTION OROERS ALSO

A number of undefended divorce petitions were heard by Mr. Justice Callan and Mr. Justice Cornish yesterday. - —■■ •« • Petitioning for divorce from Norman Leonard Frank Taylor on account of his misconduct, Rosalie Mary Taylor (Mr. G. Skelton) said...'they were married in December, 1931. In July, 1942, her husband was employed by a bus company and regu larly did not come hom-'on several nights in the week, stating that he was unable to get home from the terminal on late runs. Witness heard something and then her husDand admi'ted he had b"en living a double life. He.'hen tromiscd to give the other woman up. Sometime- later a woman called on her, told her she loved Taylor and asked witness to give him a separation. Witness declined, and Taylor, who was there at the time, promised to break off relations with the woman. Only two or three days later, however, he missed coming home at nights, and witness surprised him and the other, woman at a flat in Mission Bay. l She then declined to have anything more to do with him. A decree nisi was granted. Other decrees granted on the ground of respondent's adultery were Herbert Monkley (Mr. Dickson) v. Winifred Gladys Agnes Monkley; William Alfred Harvey (Mr. Goldstine) v. Veronica May Harvey and Alexander Munro; Joyce Regan (Mr. Townshend) v. Lionel William Regan; Marion Ruskin Faithful (Mr. W. D. Anderson) v. Alfred Faithful; John Henry Peter Briggs (Mr. Goldstine) v. Beryl Elaine Briggs and Stephen Thomas Hughes; Claude Stewart Ruddell (Mr. A. K. Turner) v. Marjorie Jean- Ruddell and Reginald Winstone Wilkinson. 9 A decree was granted Ivan Spencer Lord (Mr. Gold Water) against Eva Doris Lord on the ground of-, desertion. On the ground of separation for more than three years decrees were granted in the following eases: Mary Isabella Parkinson (Mr. Henry) v. Edmund Ivan Parkinson; Kathleen Francis Mountain (Mr. Cleal) v. Herbert Howeth Mountain; Stanley Holm Biss (Mr. Wheaton) v. Alison Marie Biss; Phyllis In a Bates (Mr. Wheaton) v. William Edward Bates; Alice Eliot Ross (Mr. Wallace) v. Malcolm Trevor Ross. On' the ground of failure to comply with orders directing restitution of conjugal rights, decrees were granted as under: Joseph Ernest West (Mr. Aekins) v. Joyce - Charlotte West; Elinor Doreen Barlow (fir. Fleming) v. Arthur Tangitu Barlow; Bernard--Ernest -Parker (Mr. Wallace) v. Valerie Terese Parker; and Vera Doris May Fergussori (Mr. Wallace) v. John Dickson Fergusson. " Decrees were granted by Mr. Justice Cornish- on the ground of separation for more than three years as follows: Irene May Hunt (Mr, Dickson) v. Francis Keith Hunt; Mary Lilian Garlick (Mr. Dickson) v. Richard Garlick; Emily Maud McMahon (Mr. Dickson) v. Terence Edric McMahon. On the ground of failure to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights: Melvyn Stanley Lewis v. Eliza-beth-Olive. Carpenter; Margaret Muriel Gates! Macßeth (Mr.; Dickson) v. Millen Macßeth; Mavis. Elizabeth .Redfern (Mr. Dickson) v. Oliver James Redfern; Henry Lawrence .Turnbull - (Mr. Dickson) v. Phyllis Ada Turnbull. Restitution Petitions They lived" together only three days, said Marie Mary Shipton (Mr. Dickson) in petitioning- before Mr. Justice Cornish for restitution of conjugal rights by her husband, Frank Shipton. She explained that the aiight after their marriage her husbancV, went to a party and came home under the influence of liquor, resulting in an argument with her. After the argument her husband, a naval rating, left her. He returned three days later, but immediately went away again. That was in" September, 1943, and despite letters,, telephone messages and personal appeals.bv her he refused to return to her. A - decree --was - granted directing the husband to "return within a period to be 31 SB§ees- greeting "restitution within 14 davsi "we're awafle lrr_ .the - petitions: Victor I vers .(•Mr;"', Dickson) v,:Marjorie - Agnes Ivers; and " William Wallace Adams (Mr. n irk son) v. Ada t Decrees granted by Mr. Justice Callan were- Victor-Wilbur Robinsoh (Mr. Noble). v Mary Florence Robinson (28 .days); Viwlprirk Evre (Mr. Thwaites) v. Nelly Eyre (40 days); Archibald Cochran Cameron (Mr. gT Skelton) v. Nancy Howard.Cameron (28 days). -