WAITING FOR DIVORCE.
MARRIAGE AGREEMENT. REMARKABLE DOCUMENT. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, July 29. A remarkable document was produced in the Police Court in an application for separation and maintenance by Olive May Badham against Charles Wain Badham. Defendant admitted his signature to a document bearing the name of himself and another woman living at the same address: ‘‘That the contracting parties hereby agree to become married by all lawful rites within three months of Charles Wain Badham obtaining a divorce from Olive May Badham, each of the parties promising to be true to and love the other; that in the event of their proceeding to Australia Badham insures for £500.” Defendant, however, denied that he was living with another woman.
The magistrate granted a separation order, and ordered Badham to continue paying £3 a week . for his wife and four children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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142WAITING FOR DIVORCE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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