DIVORCES GRANTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21926, 9 October 1934, Page 12

DIVORCES GRANTED

FOUR UNDEFENDED CASES WIVES THE PETITIONERS SEQUELS TO SEPARATION Four undefended divorce petitions wore granted by Mr. Justice Ostler in tlio Supremo .Court yesterday. On the ground of separation by mutual consent Jessio Hetherington Anderson (Mr. Schramm) sought divorce from John Gustav Anderson, to whom she was married in Apia. Western Samoa, in March, 1923. The petitioner said they lived together in Samoa for three years and afterwards in Auckland. She had trouble with her husband over his drinking habits, and in November, 1930, while they wero in Samoa, she spoke to him about it and said they would be better apart. He agreed, and sho made hor home in Auckland while he remained in Samoa. He wrote and told her he had given up his drinking habits and asked her to return to him, but when he met her on the wharf at Apia he was drunk. She had continued to maintain herself and her child ever since. His Honor made a decree nisi, to bo moved absolute after three montlis, and granted the interim custody of the child to petitioner, and costs against respondent. " rho> marriage was a happy one for a while, but not afterwards," said Hazel Florence Wood (Mr. Dickson), who petitioned for dissolution of her marriage with .Reginald Charles Wood. They wore married in February, 1918, and had three children. The ground of the petition was mutual separation. The petitioner said that on A lay 7, 1926, they had agreed to separate. She obtained a maintenance order for £2 10s for herself and the children, but had never received the money. She had had to keep herself and the children. A decree nisi was issued, with interim custody of the children to petitioner and costs against the respondent. A period of only three months together after marriage was disclosed in the case of Hilda Hart (Mr. L. C. Adams), who sought a decree nisi against Roland Louis Hart. The petitioner said they were married in November, 1928, and shortly afterwards went to Melbourne. They could not get on together, and in February of the following year they agreed to separate. Sho went to work in Melbourne and her husband returned to New Zealand. A decree nisi was issued. On the ground of the husband's failure to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal rights, Violet Lilian Gibson (Mr. Hall Skelton) asked for a decree nisi against .lames Taylor Gibson. Petitioner stated they were, married in December, 1922, and had been living apart since May 30 of thi« year. Her husband had not complied with a Court order for his return. His Honour granted the decree nisi.