DIVORCE SUIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 140, 13 May 1930, Page 11

DIVORCE SUIT.

PETITION GRANTED. An undefended petition in divorce was heard by His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Palmerston North Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, when Christina Lyons, of Wellington, proceeded against her husband, Henry Edward Lyons. Mr Leicester, of Wellington, represented stated in evidence that she was married in a registrars office, and had since lived in Wellington and Christchurch. There had been two children. Her husband would not work, and witness had to accept a position to provide the wherewithal for the maintenance of herself and the children. She had also sent her husband money to pay his board, but he did not pay it. they had agreed to separate P on September 6, 1923, and had not lived together since, nor had her husband contributed to her maintenance. Witness sought the guardianwhir, of her elder child. His Honour: What about the other r hjidP She is in a State institution. His Honour; Why were not these proceedings brought in the WellingtCJVlr Leicester said that shortly after the separation respondent had committed an offence for which he had rereived five years’ imprisonment, of ?vhTrh he had served four. Petitioner did not wish any undesirable publicity on His a HonTTr".*' Was no application made in the lower court for a separate’ nencer Stephens carpenter, of Wellington said that he had been accustomed to visiting Mr and Mrs Price, in Wellington where Mrs Lyons was hilrdinsr 'His visits) had taken plase several times a week and had extended ntor a period of three and a-half years. Ho coLld say positively that during & period Mrs Lyons had not lived with her husband, with whom he was aC ?Tiw*Honour granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months’ time, and made an order giving petitioner custody of theelde^child^