GAOL FOR HUSBAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24832, 2 March 1944, Page 2

GAOL FOR HUSBAND

HIT WIFE WITH SHOVEL ASSAULT AT TITIRANGI Pleading guilty to assaulting his wife. Ivy Dorothy Buckeridge, at Titirangi, on February 14, a motor-driver, Robert David Buckeridge (Mr. MeLiver), appeared before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., yesterday. Accused had a violent quarrel with his wife, said Sub-Inspector Harley, and he accused her of having taken money from Americans. He was under the influence of liquor at the time. The money was some that Mrs. Buckeridge had borrowed that day from her mother. Accused tore the clothes off his wife and beat her over the body and head with a shovel and then with a hammer. She ran into the road, where she collapsed, and was later picked up by a passing motorist. She was in the Auckland Hospital for three days suffering from multiple contusions and abrasions.

"Drink is this man's trouble," said counsel. The parties had been drifting apart for some time, and the assault was the culmination of it all. Accused said his wife had boasted to him that she had been out that day with servicemen. The wife was now prepared to forgive him, and accused was anxious to rehabilitate himself, and so get back his children who had been taken over by the Child Welfare Department. "Although the wife may have said something about her money, it is apparent that there is no truth in the suggestion that she had been associating with other men," said the magistrate. "There can be no excuse for accused banging his wife about in this manner, and ho cannot be allowed to go unpunished," Sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed.

MAORI PUPILS SEPARATE CLASSES OPPOSED The views of the Education Department on three resolutions on school matters passed recently by the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women were received by the Auckland Education Board at its meeting yesterday. J'lie department did not favour the segregation involved in a proposal that separate infant classes be set up for Maori children in tho Orakei, Berosford Street and Napier Street schools, as it was of opinion that this would not be m the best interests of the pupils. The request for the immediate establishment of nursery schools had been noted. It would involve the employment of trained nursing personnel and this entailed close co-operation with the Health Department, To the third resolution, the department replied that the special needs of deaf children of preschool age were under consideration.