ARMY MARRIED COUPLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1943, Page 2

ARMY MARRIED COUPLES

MR. JUSTICE FAIR’S ADVICE

AUCKLAND, June 11. Advice to married men who enter the armed forces was given by Mr. Justice Fair when hiring an undefended divorce petition to-day. ine evidence related to alleged misconduct by a wife whose husband was m the Army, at a distance, while she was also in the Army as a transport driver. His Honor 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 conditions presently in New Zealand, where a wife not only at times was separated from her husband by the needs of war service, but also had to undertake dunes and enter on associations strange to her, unsettling, and exposing her to temptations which she would not experience normally. 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 tar as possible and to see that she was guarded against the dangers.