SOLDIER HUSBANDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 138, 12 June 1943, Page 6

SOLDIER HUSBANDS

A JUDGE'S ADVICE

(P.A.)

AUCKLAND, June 11.

Advice to married men who enter the Armed Forces was given by Mr. Justice Fair when hearing an undefended divorce petition today. The evidence related to misconduct by a wife whose husband was in the Army at a distance, while she was also ~in the Army as a transport driver. The Judge said that in such petitions his duty was to consider whether the husband's conduct had induced or contributed to the wife's lapse. It was a question which might arise frequently in the conditions at present existing in New Zealand where wife was not only at times separated from her husband by the. needs of war service but also had to.undertake duties and enter oh^ associations "strange to her arid unsettling and exposing her to temptations she would not experience nor-' mally. In such a situation.the husband's duty was to see that his. wife, when circumstances changed exceptionally, was afforded his company and protection as far as possible and to see she was guarded against dangers.