DOCTOR'S DIVORCE
(By Tolograph.) (Spocial to "Tho Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. An. Auckland medical practitioner, Dr. M. B. Gunn, was granted a petition at the Supremo Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Smith for dissolution of his marriage with Vera Mary Gunn, who was in. England. Desertion waa the ground of the petition. In evidenco, Michael Beresford Gunn said he had served with the Australian forces in the war, and had married the respondent in November, 1917, in England. He mado arrangements with the Repatriation Department for his wife to come to Australia after tho war, but she persistently refused to leave Home. Her mother had supported her attitude, and all his efforts to persuade her to change her mind had been in vain. "I have written to her a number of times to ask her to come," said the petitioner. He added that he left Australia four years ago and came to practise his profossion in Auckland. The last occasion on which he heard from his wife was some years, ago, when she wrote asking him to go back to_ England. In reply to that letter he said he was domiciled in New Zealand, and would provide a home for her. He had received no other letter. A decree nisi was granted.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 19
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213DOCTOR'S DIVORCE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 19
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