UNHAPPY MARRIAGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 14

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES

COUPLE'S TWO VENTURES SECOND ANNULMENT GRANTED [from our own coiirf.spondk.nt] HAMILTON, Wednesday Unusual circumstances wero revealed in an undefended divorce petition heard before Mr. Justice Callan in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day,' when Irvine Elston, theatre manager, ' of Hamilton, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Ellen Elston. Petitioner gave evidence that he and his wife were first married about 22 years ago. They separated two years later and weio subsequently divorced. In March, 1927, they remarried, and three years later they separated. For the last six years they had not lived together. There was one child of the former marriage, and she was now 21. in granting a decree nisi, His Honor said lie had never come across a similar ease before.

On the grounds of respondents' failuro to comply with orders for the restitution of conjugal rights, the following Bjtitions in divorce were granted:— enry Sabine Townend against Mona lithe) Townend; Reginald Francis Kelly against Ursula Gundry Kelly; Colin Walter Brewster against Daisy Agnes Brewster. A decree nisi was granted to Arthur Walter Bennett Green against Hilda Alice Green on the ground of desertion. Separation was proved in the case in which Ella Lillian Coombes was granted an annulment of her marriage with Nigel John James Coombes. Evidence that respondent was living with another woman was given in the case in which Florence Maude Litchwork was granted a decree nisi against Albert Edward Litchwork.