IN DIVORCE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1937, Page 7

IN DIVORCE

THE RADLEY CASE (Per Press Association —Copyright!. AUCKLAND, June 9. That she had never at any time been desirous of a separation from her husband, and still wished- to return to hitn, was the final statement made bv Dorothy Whaley Hadley in evidence in the Supreme Court this morning in ** case in which the Solicitor-General intervened to oppose the moving absolute a decree nisi made in November of last year on the petition of Geoffrey viquirt Radley, a fruit produc merchant, formerly of Auckland and now of Christchurch .

Cross-examined by G. P. Finlay for the petitioner, witness said up to 1927 her married life as a whole had been happy, but after that it was disturbed. She did not think she was responsible for the disturbance although she would not say she was always sweet and affectionate. The reason she went to Christchurch after the separation was to be near her children, and with the hope of winning her husband back. She denied she went to Christchurch in order to carry out a certain idea and destroy the force of the separation. She admitted she had becornfc bound by the agreement, but said she had not wished to separate. She kept two diarm, to record events and not to enable to defeat the separation order. * Questioned about “Mrs X,” witness said when she began to suspect her husband was seeing more of “Mrs X” than was desirable, she thought that if “Mr X” was transferred alsewhere, it would end the trouble. She'did not go to the firm employing “Mr X” and endeavour to got him dismissed from bis job. Witness did not remember having a physical combat with her husband on a boat returning from England in 1920 and denied that she frequently Attacked him. She disagreed with counsel’s contention.that she was a profound exponent of women’s rights and denied that she was an atheist. She admitted that none of her children were baptised, but that was not because she ridiculed religion. Replying to Mr Finlay .witness said. “1 am still fond of my husband and would go back to him now.’’