Unhappy Marriages

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7459, 9 May 1934, Page 4

Unhappy Marriages

DECREES NISI GRANTED

Separation for more than three years was pleaded by Mary Rachel Lysaght (Mr C. E. Taylor), of Bunnytkorpe, in the Palmerston North Supreme Court yesterday, when seeking divorce from Leonard Lysaght, electrician, of parts unknown.

Jn evidence petitioner said slie was married on June 29, 1926, in Palmerston North. On September 11, 1928, an order for separation was granted her by the Feilding Magistrate’s Court on the ground that respondent had failed to provide her with maintenance. Since that time she had been living at Bun gythorpe .with her parents apart from her husband, whose whereabouts she did not know of. Ho had ieft New Zealand, and 'the 'fast letter she received from him came from San Francisco. Wm. Eggleton, contractor, of Bunnythorpe, corroborated his daughter’s evidence. Mr Taylor mentioned that in November, 1932, respondent had instituted divorce proceedings in Auckland on the grounds of the' separation, but Mrs Lysaglit had. filed an answlr because she thought that she had been the party who had been wrongod. . That petition had hot'been gone on with and had not as yet been struck off the list, and; Mr Taylor said he proposed to move' in’ the Auckland Court that it be struck out before tho decree absolute -was-asked for by Mrs Lysaght in the present, case. His Honour said he would like time t.o look into the position and would intimate his intention in Tespect of the decree nisi before the present session ended. Mrs Bernice Gertrude Hawkins, waitress, of Feilding (Mr C. E. Taylor), sought, divorce from Harvey David Francis Hawkins, hotel worker, of Opotiki, on the grounds of desertion. Petitioner, in ovidence, said she married respondent on September 17, 1925. There were no children of the marriage. They lived at Eotorua, Waverley and Palmerston North, reaching the last-named place early in 1930. Respondent had no position to go to and remained out of work. For a fen weeks they lived in a boarding-house with- no means. Then she secured work at Foilding, .considering it necessary that one of them., should earn some money... He stayed on at the boaidinghouso in Palmerston North, whither she returned each week-end and gave him some- money from her earnings. On the. third, week-end she discovered he .had gone., away to Auckland, and since..then he had neither communicated with, her nor sent her any money. Late .last year she learned he was in Opotiki. .’.Mrs N. M. O’Brien, of Palmerston North, who knows both petitioner and respondent, .recalled their coming to her boarding-house about three years ago last September, and respondent leaving and not returning.

A. decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute after, three months.