DID NOT WANT CHILDREN

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2617, 26 February 1925, Page 9

DID NOT WANT CHILDREN

WIFE FINDS • ' PKBUOOKS TOO QUIET. SUCCESSFUL PETITION FOR DIVORCE. A desire to forsake the quietude of the bush and live the more engaging life of the town appeared to be the chief reason why Beatrice Emma Birdsall left her husband John Henry Birdsall, in May 1921 —never to return Birdsall. who is a shepherd at Omakere, Hawke’s Bay, applied to the Supreme Court at Palmerston North yesterday for a divorce on the grounds of desertion, and in telling the story of his unhappy married life, stated that the parties were married at Auckland on March 8, 1913. They had lived at North Auckland, Palmerston North and at Omakere, and there were two children of the union. Existence was not pleasant, and the backblocks were too quiet for the respondent, who left home in May 1921, leaving a note to say she would not return. In August of -the same year witness received a note from his wife reiterating her determination not to live with him. and a month later he had occasion to make enquiries, which elicited the fact that she had been unfaithful to him. An aunt of the resnondent, Emma Ann Birdsall said that the young woman had told her that she found it too quiet in the backblocks and did not want any more children. A decree nisi, to be moved absolute in three months was granted.