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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 8

“Many people,” said Mr J. S. Barton. S.M., in the Wanganui Court on Saturday, “are under the impression that after an order of the Court has been mads for separation they have only to come together again and the order then becomes ineffective. That is not the position. This comment followed the hearing of a case • n wnich an order was applied for by a woman who had been granted an order some months ago on the grounds of her husband being i-n habitual drunkard. He went to live with his <1)11 and behaved rwiiJl ‘hat the wife thought he had thoroughly reformed and she took him back again. He had only been a few days ill the home before he commenced to kick over the traces again and when a constable visited the premises he found him in what he described as a drunken sleep, with a gallon “blue peter’’ in a handy position for the awakening. Another, application was then made for a separtion order, but the Magistrate pointed out that an order was already in existence, and the mere fact that the wife had taken the husband back temporarily did not set aside an existing order of the Court, and he could not make another order.