CROWN INTERVENTION IN DIVORCE SUIT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 14 September 1937, Page 16

CROWN INTERVENTION IN DIVORCE SUIT

FURTHER EVIDENCE AT AUCKLAND (PEX6S A.6BOCUTIOK TKLIGEAM.) AUCKLAND. September 13. The adjourned action in which the Solicitor-General intervened to oppose a decree nisi being made absolute was resumed before Mr Justice Callan, in the Supreme Court. The petitioner, Geoffrey Squire Radiey, fruit and produce merchant, ot Christchurch. obtained a decree nisi | against his wile, Dorothy Whaley Radley. from Mr Justice fair, on Novemoer 16 last, on the ground that a separation agreement entered into between me parties on August 26, 1932, haa been in full force and effect ever since. On behalf of the Crown, Mr V. R.' Meredith intervened, alleging that the decree nisi was obtained contrary to the natural justice of cause, owing to material tacts being concealeu from the Court. The Crown alleged on the evidence of diaries kept by the respondent that the parties had been together on 175 occasions after the separation, and that the separation had been definitely terminated in June, 1934. when the wife complied with the husband's request to return and live with him. The examination of Mrs Radley, which occupied several days early last June, was completed before the case was then adjourned. Rewa Radley, aged 11 £ years, a daughter of the parties, and Dr. Margaret Knight, who had attended Mrs Radley, gave evidence to-day. The petitioner, in evidence, said he was married in July, 1913,, at the age of 19. when Mrs Radley was 27. He said he sent his children to Chrfstchurch in 1930 because she had threatened to kill them. He described the circumstances of his getting a new home at Papatoetoe with a view to making a fresh start. His wife would not go to Papatoetoe, and they had been separated ever since. , The hearing was adjourned.