HEARING ADJOURNED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22209, 9 September 1935, Page 11

HEARING ADJOURNED

PETITION FOR DIVORCE FURTHER EVIDENCE NEEDED [from our own correspondent! HAMILTON, Sunday Owing to lack of corroborative evidence, a petition for divorce which came before Mr. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday was adjourned to Auckland, where the petitioner lived. Reginald William Norman, salesman, of Auckland, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Doris Ellen Norman. Petitioner said that the parties were married in February, 1925, and that there were two children of the marriage. He said he had reason to complain of his wife's extravagance and her neglect of the home, and in June, 1932, they agreed to separate. They had not lived together since. George Ronald Trist said that petitioner had told him that he had not lived with his wife during the last three years. Witness had not visited petitioner's home for some years, and could not state from his knowledge that the statement was correct. His Honor stated that he had no doubt the petitioner had told witness the truth, but the evidence given was not corroboration as was required by law in divorce cases. The hearing was adjourned to enable further evidence to bo called.