FISHER DIVORCE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 15

FISHER DIVORCE

A STATEMENT DENIED | (From "The Post's" Representative,) LONDON, 2nd Juno. In the evening paperß last Friday and in Saturday's morning, papers a cablegram from New Zealand announced that ."Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher, wife of a former New Zealand Cabinet Minister, has been granted a decree nisi and awarded costs on the highest scale against her husband. There were crosspetitions on the ground of mutual separation." The "Evening News," tho "Standard," and the "Dailr Mail" considered the item of news of sufficient importance to includes in their issues a phtotograph of Mr. Fisher. The "Evening News" and tho "Daily Mail" used a •message sent by their own correspondent which had the following additional statement :-^"Mr. Fisher had always ■paid his wife a substantial annuity, and the parties, although separated, were still on friendly terms." .■', Messrs. Lovell, White, and King, of sThavies Inn, E.G.;'solicitors for Mrs. .Fisher, wrote at once to: the 'fDaily Mail" iii reference to1 the correspondent's statement,' and the "Mail" has published the substance of the solicitor's letter. ■'-■ •' : The say that there was no; mutual agreement to separate; that Mr. Fisher left his wife lome years ago and has refused ■to return to her in spits of many pleading letters from her; also 'that: Mr. Fisher did not pay his wife any Annuity, and that she lives entirely on income: derived from property left to her "by her parents^ They further state that it is incorrect to say that Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are on friendly terms. They are not.