SEQUEL TO SEPARATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18354, 21 March 1923, Page 7

SEQUEL TO SEPARATION.

DECREE NISI GRANTED.

A petition in divorce based on the mutual separation of the parties was j heard before Mr. Justice Stringer at the Supreme Court yesterday. The petitioner was Alexander Anderson, mechanical engi- 1 neer, of Auckland (Mr. McLiver), and the respondent Nellie Anderson, now resident in England, lor whom Mr. Meredith ap- i peared on the question of alimony. The facts, as outlined by the petitioner, j were that the parties were married at South Shields in 1912, and four months later went to Canada, where petitioner engaged in farming for some months. In ; December, 1913, petitioner' went to China, i his wife remaining in Canada on the understanding that she should join him when he secured a position. When he eventually sent for her she cabled giving the Erobable date of her arrival, but, although e had arranged the payment of her passage, she did not reach China. He later received a letter from solicitors asking for a separation allowance for his wife, who had decided that she preferred to live in England with her people. He then agreed to pay £100 a year and had maintained that payment practically ever since. A decree nisi was granted, to bo moved I absolute at the expiration of three months, j alimony at the rate of £100 a year to be I paid to the respondent in the meantime, j