QUICK DIVORCES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 189, 8 May 1930, Page 12

QUICK DIVORCES

ONE EVERY FIVE MINUTES YESTERDAY’S LIST Divorces at the rate of one every five minutes were disposed of by Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court yesterday. A decree nisi was granted in each of the following undefended cases, the name of counsel for the petitioner being given in parentheses:— Edna Violet Smith .against David Smith, mutual separation (Mr. A. J. Mazengarb). ' . Ernest John Fowke against Millicent Mary Ann Fowke, desertion (Mr. P. Jackson). „ , = George Luff against Leonora Vera Luff, adultery (Mr. A, J. Mazengarb). George Thomas Pearce against Florence Ada Pearce, desertion (Mr. A. B. Croker). ' . Eda Maria Davis against Edward John Davis, desertion (Mr. P. Jackson). Ida Kenny against Sydney Kenny, separation (Mr. H. R. Bliss). . Elsie May Santos against John Reginald Santos, mutual separation (Mr. ,P. Jackson). . T Ivy Martha' Goodyer against James Edward Goodyer, desertion (Mr. R. Hardie-Boyes). . • „ , Harriet Ann Machirus against Frederick Henry Theodore Machirus, separation (Mr. A. J. Mazengarb). Violet May Harding against AlbertErnest Harding, aduiery (Mr. A. B. Sievwright). ' Gertrude Alexander Monrad against Carl Johannes Monrad, separation (Mr. A. B. Sievwright). Alfred James Stephens against Maggie. Stephens, separation (Mr. A. J. Mazengarb). Ethel May Pepper against Arthur Neville Pepper, separation (Mr., A. J. Mazengarb). • • Frank Stevenson against Gladys Bvelyne Stevenson, desertion (Mr. A., B. Sievwright). . Hilda Edith Reay against Richard Coates Reay, separation (Mr. P. Jackson ). . . Irene Gertrude Lylian against Walter Clement Lylian, separation (Mr. R. E. Pope). . Kathleen Lesley Gilchrist against John Gilchrist, separation (Mr. A. J. Mazengarb). Harry Valentine ' McComish against Emma McComish, separation (Mr. W. P. Shorland). , . ■ Rhoda Caroline McHardie against Lancelot Avison McHardie, separation (Mr. W. G. Goodwin). ■ Grace Maud Cook against Donald Gilbert Cook, separation (Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson). . Clara Emily Macdonald against Gordon Simeon Macdonald, separation (Mr. H. R. Bliss). . William Arthur Elton against Nola Marjory Elton, adultery (Mr. A. J. Mazengarb). . _ Laura Winifred Adams against Herbert William Adams, adultery (Mr. P. Jackson). . „ Francis Charles Holmes against Cremona May Holmes, separation (Mr. R. E. Tripe). James Clifford Hargrave against Leah Viola Madge Hargrave, desertion (Mr. J. Scott).' ■ . c < Grace Hannah Prankherd against Stanley Alfred Pranljherd, ■ separation (Mr. P., H. ,Putnam). ; . Jack Nicholas Shanahan against Cora Grace Shanahan, adultery (Mr. D. M. Dickson). . Sophie Agnes Towersey against Josiah Henry Lane Towersey, separation (Mr. P. Jackson). William Alfred Eskett against Phyllis Eskett, adultery (Mr. R. E. Pope). In the case of Edmund Wellesley Reeves against Adele Dorothea Margaret Reeves (Mr. W. P. Shorland), an order was made for restitution of conjugal rights to be complied with within 14 days. .