ORDERS GRANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 7, 8 July 1935, Page 11

ORDERS GRANTED

:WIFE'S ALLEGATIONS

A CHRISTCHURCH CASE" jr. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) .' CHRISTCHURCH, This: Day. A- Sunday school teacher and church '•worker; had maintenance, guardianship, and separation orders made against him in favour of his • wife in the Magistrate's Court this morning by Mr: E. C. Levvey. The plaintiff was Selina Joyce Bernstein, who sought or-, •derS; against Benedict E. Bernstein, of New Brighton, on the- grounds of cruelty and failure to maintain. ■. Mrs! Bernstein said in evidence that she was at present staying with an aunt. On May 30 her husband came home from a Sunday school teachers' meeting'and found her sitting in front of the fife with her 11-month-old baby on her knee. He told her to put the baby to bed, but she said that the child should stay up for a while. Her husband put the fire out, and subsequently tore her dress off. On May 6, she continued, her husband broke a bone in her hand by striking it with his fist, and she had to get medical attention. On another occasion he smashed the hood_ of a pram. He used to lock her in the house so that she could not go out. He would come horrie in. a bad temper and if she would not quarrel with him he would throw a cup of tea or something else at her.

Bernstein told the Court that his wife had done her best to provoke his temper. She knew he had a temper, and. whenever his temper was rising she'never tried to curb him. Since his marriage things had been different from what he had expected, and he had wondered why.

A.sked whether he was a God-fear-ing'man, Bernstein replied that he took an interest in.Church work and was a Sunday school teacher.

"You are old enough to be able to control your temper," said the Magistrate', in fixing maintenance at 15s a week and granting separation and guardianship orders. "If there is any more of this nonsense I might have to exercise my penal powers."