HUSBAND DISBELIEVED

Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 4

HUSBAND DISBELIEVED

DIVORCE REFUSED, [Pek United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 9. Under examination by Mr Justice Adams to-day, Saville Firth, a mechanic, of Taylor’s road, Bryndwr, failed to justify his petition for divorce from Lucy Firth, ills Honor said: “ I do not behove this man’s story,” and dismissed the petition. Firth alleged that his wife deserted him, as she would not come to live with him in New Zealand. He said that she was in England, and ho left there because times were bad. She said that she wanted to live with her mother in England, and he came away in 1913. His Honor: Well, what have you done about her? Petitioner: I have written to her and sent her money. His Honor; Yon seem from the letter I have here, to have loft her without means to struggle as best she could through the horrors of the war in England.

Mr Rows (for Firth): She refused to come out. His Honor: I have no evidence that she had an opportunity to come out. Firth said that he had sent his wife £•3 or £4 a- month for eight years, but His Honor said that there was nothing to corroborate Firth’s statements.

“ I should require fairly strong evidence,” His Honor said, in dismissing the petition, “to got rid of the impression that this man simply left his wife, and by his neglect brought about the catastrophe disclosed.