BRIDE ORDERED FROM HOUSE: DIVORCE SUIT
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 17. Three days after arriving from England in 1945 a bride was ordered out of her mother-in-law’s house. She had been shocked to find that her husband’s people were coloured. This story emerged in the Supreme Court when Joan Waetford, aged 21, was granted a decree nisi to be made absolute after three months.
It was stated that when she was put out of the house the wife walked 17 miles to another township and sought help from the Rehabilitation Department.
Moneys she received when her baby was born she said, were gambled away by her husband.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22666, 17 June 1948, Page 6
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106BRIDE ORDERED FROM HOUSE: DIVORCE SUIT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22666, 17 June 1948, Page 6
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