DIVORCES GRANTED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 219, 15 September 1945, Page 7

DIVORCES GRANTED

UNDEFENDED PETITIONS

A number of undefended divorce petitions were heard "esterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Callan. "I had just removed to a house in Quadrant Road, Onehunga, when a man came round to look at the furniture, and I found the wife was selling the furniture over my head," said Harold Henry James Mills (Mr. Henry) in petitioning for divorce from Muriel Maud Mills. Petitioner said they were married in July, 1936, and had adopted a child, and it was in September the same year the wife sold up. She told him she was going up north, and went. Some time later she had a child of the marriage, and he visited her in hospital, but she indicated she did not want to continue the marr.iage. Sometime later she asked him to take the child, which he did, but she would not return home.

A decree nisi was granted, subject to an affidavit satisfactorily proving serving of the divorce papers. Other decrees granted on the ground of desertion by the respondents were: Gladys Joan O'Kane (Mr. S. Clarke) v. Leslie Patrick O'Kane (Mr. Meek); Edna May Maddaford (Mr. S. Clarke) v. Norman Victor Maddaford. Ground of Separation Separation by agreement for more than three years was the ground on which decrees were granted in the petitions: Harold. William Rosser (Mr. S. Clarke) v. Kathleen Mary Rosser; Vida Winifred Ballance (Mr. S. Clarke) v. Arthur Cyril Ballance; Charles Edward Richards (Mr. Henry) v. Vyvyan Margaret Richards; John Eric Bain (Mr. Simson) v. Eileen Olga Bam (Mr. Oliphant); William Charles Caplin (Mr. Henrv) v. Mabel Caplin; Francis Norman Bertram (Mr. Henry) v. Audry June Bertram (Mr. Aekins), Norman Robert Porter (Mr. Henry) v Mary Kathleen Veronica Porter (Mr. Nutsford). Restitution Order An order for the restitution of conjugal rights was made in the petition: Henry Leonard Barrack (Mr Henry) v. Betty Gwendolyn Barrack, 28 days being allowed for compliance.