PETITION FOR DIVORCE.
COURT GRANTS DECREE. A petition for divorce by Dorothy Mathfera O'Connor {Mr. Hall Skelton) against Vincent O'Connor, of Remuera, on the ground of misconduct, was heard in the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Stringer.
Mrs. O'Connor said the marriage took place at the Auckland Registry Office in 1920, when her husband was 30 and she was 21. The marriage was not happy, because of her husband's drinking habits. He was an accountant In July, 1925. he sent petitioner avay for a holiday, and on her return early in the morning, a day before she was expected, she found her husband and a typist in the house together. Petitioner later went: to her husband's office. She found the door locked and on looking through the letter-box saw her husband, with another girl. A signed confession was put in and a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19558, 10 February 1927, Page 13
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