DIVORCES GRANTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 14

DIVORCES GRANTED.

[UNDEFENDED PETITIONS.

[LARGE, NUMBER OF CASES.

STORIES OF UNHAPPINESS.

yARIOUS GROUNDS ADVANCED

Over 40' undefended divorco cases were .dealt with by Mr. Justice Ilerdman in the Supreme Court yesterday.

Because of the infatuation of her husband for a young girl Frances Mildred Hall (Mr. Schramm) sought dissolution of her marriage with Albert Garnet Hall. Tho marriage took place in August, 1921. and there are three children. Petitioner said she had had trouble .with her 'husband because of his friendship with a girl. This led to quarrels, and when she complained last Juno he thrashed her and she left him. He had admitted to her that he had been friendly with this girl, and she had received a letter from him saying that he loved the girl. .

His Honor granted a decree nisi.

" Going With Another."

Married at the end of March last, Frances Shorthand (Mr. Matthews) sought dissolution of her marriage with Frederick Edward Pietro Sbortland, on the ground of his adultery. Tho petitioner said her husband had brought her a letter from another woman in which the writer said she loved tho respondent, but would go out of their lives because she did not wish to make trouble between them.

Later her husband wrote saying he did not want the petitioner, as he was going with another. Petitioner was a nurse and sho'/had continued working at her profession after the marriage, as her husband was un?,ble to support her. On the ground of admissions in a letter by the respondent, His Honor granted a decree ni'si.

In asking for a divorce from Ernest Luellen Williams, on tho ground of desertion, /Violet Williams (Mr. Singer) said a warrant had been issued for her husband's arrest for maintenance some years ago, bat be had disappeared and could not be found. They were married in September, 1922. A decree nisi was granted. / Behaviour of Husbands.

. Habitual drunkenness and failure to 'maintain/ were put forward by Phyllis Maude Walsh (Mr. Simpson) as grounds for the dissolution of her marriage with John' James Walsh. The parties were ..married in September, 1918. The petitioner said her husband began ■drinking,to excess the year after their marriage. She had been earning tier own living since 1924, and during the last If! months he had sent her only £2O. A decree nisi was issued.

The allegation that hor husband altered his habits greatly for the worse ..when he came to New Zealand in 1921 was made by Jeanie Hunter Ireland (Mr. Singer), who sought divorce from Andrew Davidson Ireland, on the ground of habitual drunkenness and cruelty. Petitioner said they were married in 1915. Hor husband's drinking habits became very bad about nine years ago, and he frequently beat her "black and blue."

A decree rjsi was issued. !/ An Unusual Position.

A peculiarity of the petition of Wallace Simpson (Mr. Matthews) against Elizabeth Simpson, on the ground of the existence of a separation order, was that a maintenance and separation order had been made against him on the wife's petition in the Magistrate's Court in 1925. Mr. Matthews submitted that a mistake had been made in "the lower Court. The children had first been given to the mother, /but had later been taken from her and given to the father, in whose care they still were. Petitioner said he had -made all his payments regularly and denied that he had been guilty of any matrimonial offence. His' Honor adjourned the case in order jthat the legal point involved might be .considered. • Married in July, 1898, Jessio Ford (Mr. (Alexander) sought dissolution of her marriago with Robert Ford, on the ground of a separation agreement entered into in March, 1924. A decree nisi was issued. Six Years Missing. The petition of Chloris Pauline Boyle '(Mr. West) against Francis Vivian Boyle Was based on a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights issued to petitioner on December 6, 1923. Petitioner said she bad not seen her husband since that date. She was granted a decree nisi, with costs against respondent. Allegations of adultery against the reBpondents were accepted as the grounds of granting decrees nisi to Mabel Elizabeth Robertson Beatty (Mr. Coates) against Jack Batchelor Beatty; to QPearl Aileen Taylor (Mr. Singer) against iWilliam Harold Taylor (Mr. West); to Lily Keesing (Mr. Burton) against Amiel Isaac Keesing; to Herbert Alister Pope (Mr. Schramm) against Violet Maude .OPope, and Harold Kenneth Nicholson (corespondent); and to Nellie Christian (Mr. Schramm) against Arthur Lawrence Christian. Decrees nisi were issued on the ground of desertion to Ethel Maude Linkhorn (Mr., Newbery) against Charles Percy ! Linkhorr); to William Patrick Cummings . '(Mr. Thwaites) against Grace Lesley Cum- ; mings; to Ruby Rebecca Orange (Mr. ; Matthews) against Frederick Henry Orange; to Margaret J. Mackley (Mr. Newbefv) against Horace B. Mackley; and to Walter Simon Clark (Mr. Wilkin) against Leah Piripi Clark. Variety of Grounds.

Decrees ni:si to take effect after three months were issued on the ground of separation Io Ernest Roderick Aspden (Mr. A. J. Moody) against Florence A. M. [Aspden; to Edward Ernest Weston (Mr. Lcunard) against Lizzie Weston; to May Ovei'y llaycion (Mr. Snedden) against ■ Stanley Arthur Havden; to Flossie Ellen CI anno Morton (Mr. Biernacki) against Francis ilerny Morton; to Winifred Ellen Da Andrad 'Mr. Singer) against John Thomas iJe Andrad; to Marie Ethelind [Robertson (Mr. Simpson) against William "Robertson; to Florence May Gulley (Mr. [Matthews) against George Robert Gulley; to Josephine Jackson (Mr. Matthews) against John Owen Eugene Jackson; to Alan Archibald O'Neill (Mr. S. Mason) against ..Madeline May O'Neill; to Hilda Coyle (Mr. .Schramm) against Thomas Covlc; to Gertrude Marguerite l'ook (Mi. Webb) against Edward Rook; to Ernest Alfied Duplantier (Mr. Grant) against IMabel Adela Duplantier (Mr. Leary) and ~to M a ude Mary Jenkinson (Mr. Good) against Ilenry Christie Jenkinson. The petition of Alexander Daniel Dwver (Mr. Matthews) for divorce from [Madge Revell Dwver on the ground of a separation agreement was adjourned for the production of proof of marriage. On the ground of respondents' failure +o comply with an order for the restitu. lion of conjugal rights, decrees nisi re granted to John Victor McMnnus (Mr. JCavanngh) against Elsie (Jeorgina Mc[Manus; to Joseph Redvm Boyle (Mr. ■ Singer) against Annie Rita Boyle; to [Dora Bowman (Mr. Webb) against. Rob<>rt Constantino Bowman; to George LPearce'' Jackson (Mr. Butler) against •Hilda Jackson; to Susan Fitts (Mr TMatthews) against William Francis Fitts; ito Samuel Henrv Goodman (Mr. Sned..lden) against Alary Rosalie Goodman- to {Sydney James Wyatt (Mr. McLiver) ■.against Shirley Wyntt; and to Robert Taylor (Mr. Singer) against Ron a "JMargarefc Taylor.