JUDGE’S COMMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1939, Page 6

JUDGE’S COMMENT

DIVORCE ON SEPARATION GROUNDS. (Pet Press Association. —CopyrigHt;. HAMILTON, August 21. “1 am not chief divorce agent for half the wives and dodging husbands in Now Zealand who regard divorce as a matter of convenience,” said Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Hamilton, when referring to a divorce action in which the petitioner proceeded on the grounds of a separation agreement. The case to which his Honour referred was one in which Walter Lisle TyeA a grader. driver, of Tauranga, sought a divorce from Isobel Louise Tye. Evidence that the. parties had been living apart was given by the maintenance officer (Mr M. MacCofmack), who was introduced. to the affair when the petitioner failed to pay maintenance.' “As far as the petitioner is concerned the agreement has not been in full force and effect for. he has not completely complied with it,” said his Honour. “A man cannot take out the parts that suit him and just ignore tlie others.in respect of such an agreement. If the agreement has been in full force the maintenance officer would not have come into tlie picture at all. I have no patience with men who try to dodge their, responsibilities? I. am not the cdiiefixlivorce agent for. half, the wives and dodging husbands in New Zealand. for the petitioner seems to be one of the latter:’’ ■*; p. i r* The case was.-stood ÜbwhMo-'allow the sol icitor-to-■confer wii/h jlyns. .principals in Tauranga. ' ‘