HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 16

HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

RESTITUTION OF RIGHTS. SEVERAL ORDERS MADE. Several orders for the restitution of conjugal rights were rpade in tho Supreme Court yesterday by Mr. Justice TMair and Mr. Justice Frazer. "I could not take rnv wife about liecause I was looking to the responsibilities ahead of rue, and .1 was keeping my nos«» t" tho grindstone; that was why she left me, I think,'' said David Alexander John -l.ee (Mr. Singer), who was granted an C'nlcr against Linda l,ee. Petitioner said he was married just over a year ago. "I had been courting my wife for a cona.dcrtible lime befme the marriage," petiimner added, "Her parents did not approve of iiif, but, I was so determined slio would become my wife that J took her away from 111 ■ r home. Shu was away limn home- at least two and; a half years before | married her. Last August she said she. wanted to go home, and j |. ;r „ nv jf «.|, (; v . njil. barf; if would he the end. One. day F ariived bourn from work to find -dm bad p.n.- nnd taken nil the; furniture." lie now had ;i home of his own, but respondent icfused 1o return to him. Margaret Dunlop Mnir Gilchrist Miller- < hen was said to have tnl.ep .-idvnnlnL'e of Hie' absence of her husband, Frederick William Georgo Millerehen 'Mr. McLiver), in Die Magistrate's Court, to defi'iid M'piiration and tnaiiitenanee proceedings, which she did not go on v. illi, to leaVn Inane. Milleiehen said he had looked after the eiiildren and had .-.eveial 1 lilies asked his wife to return, llis peti lion for an order for restitution of conjugal rights was granted. An order was niado in favour of Duncan Melnnes (Mr. Corker) against < iretchen Milnnes, who was .said to Im i "stless by disposition. ami who had left her husband after he had acceded to her amsli to come to Auckland from Takanini. An order was also made in the ease of Myrtle May Smith (Mr. Matthews) ligainst 'lhomas Arthur Smith.