SUPREME COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 23 November 1911, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND, Nov. 23

Judge Edwards granted a decree nisi in the divorce case Mary Stone v. John Thomas Stone, who mari'ied her at a Christchurch registry office in 1906, and immediately deserted her.

George Smith, charged with neglecting to j>rovide adequate maintenance •for his two sons, aged 8 and 6 years, who were found by the Whangarei police in an emaciated condition, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the rJudge seating that accused's housei»keeper, though not criminally respon.sible, evidently had her share in grossly :neglecting the children:.