Children Left to Care of State
JUDGE HOLDS UP DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS
“Thero are unsatisfactory features about this case and I want to look farther into it,” stated Hon. Mr. Justice Blair in the Palmerston North Supreme Court yesterday when presented with a petition for divorce. Perusing the deed of separation on which the petition was based, his Honour observed that there was no provision made for the maintenance of the two children of the marriage, and petitioner, the husband, informed the Court that they were in tho care of the State. His Honour: Why haven’t you kept them ? Petitioner: I was exempted on account of ill-health. His Honour: What do you want a divorce for? To get married again and have another budget of children for the State to keep? What abqut your wife’s maintenance? Petitioner: I have paid £1 a week when in work. His Honour: And when not employed somebody else has to pay. Petitioner: Y'es. Petitioner said that both ho and liia wife had been tubercular patients in a sanatorium. His Honour: And the state has been looking after the children ever since. Petitioner: That is the position, sir. His Honour (to counsel): Both these people are tubercular and I don’t know what he wants a divorce i'or. It is very unsatisfactory and I want to look into it. Alaybe he is entitled to a divorce. His Honour left the matter at that.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 5
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