A SEPARATION CASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16431, 24 December 1913, Page 14

A SEPARATION CASE.

WIFE SAYS HUSBAND CHANGED. MAGISTRATE " SICK AND TIRED " , OF SUCH OASES. In a case heard by Mr. H. W. Bishop, . S M., yesterday, Charles Killick was the respondent to an by his Wife ( for a summary separation on the ground' that ho had failed to maintain her and her child. Mr Leathern appeared for Killick and opposed the application. The complainant said that Killiok was terrible in tho house and that she never had a moment's peace. She had had to get protection from him. .Mr; Bishop: Apparently you didn't know enough about him. Complainant: He changed after I i married him. Mr Bishop: Yes, we had a case here A few da3 - s ago where the husband changed like that. The complainant admitted that her parents and her brother and sisters had gone to stay with him. Mf Bishop: You've got no right to import people into tho house like that. " But he gave me permission to fetch'my father, seventy years of age, into the house and give him a home," she said. Mr Leathern: But your sister. mother and .brothers came. The defendant stated that he had earned £2 10b as a driver, but had been put off owing to slackness during the strike. He had paid many bills for-the complainant's mother's-food. The complainant said that she was living with her mother, who was paying,the rent. She added that she and her husband had never agreed. Mr Bishop: I have heaps of these cases where they won't agree. Tho only thing to do is to make an order so small that it will not encourage them to keep apart. To make an order for bare subsistence is the only course left open. to me in ninety per cent of these cases. I'm sick and "tired of them. They're married for two or three weeks and then they come into Court. The only way to get a little-peace is to give the order with provision for a small payment. A separation order was made, providing for tho payment of 15s a week towards the support of the woman and herfchild. ..'.- ...:'-••-.' /■'■■■••