MANY DIVORCES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24879, 28 April 1944, Page 5

MANY DIVORCES

UNDEFENDED CASES OVER 30 DECREES GRANTED ] Over 30 undefended divorce petitions \ were dealt with by Mr. Justice Fair and Mr. Justice Callsn yesterday. Allegations that his wife, Maggie Irene Wiihelm. had deserted him and their three children at Mount Mauriganui in 1938 were made by Edward j Henry Wiihelm (Mr. A. P. King). The ! parties were married in 1921. Petitioner said that when he was returning home by train in 1930 he noticed at a station : his wife on a train going in the opposite direction. When he got home, petitioner continued, he found the children had been left in the charge of a girl of 17. His ! wife left no note, but later he received j a letter from her saying she would not I return. He met her in Hamilton and j appealed to her to return for the sake | of the children, but she refused. A decree nisi was issued. Naval Man's Case A seaman-gunner in the Royal New j Zealand Navy, James Kerr Christopher (Mr. Aldertonl. sought divorce from i Susan Isabel Christopher (Mr. G. Skelton). on the ground of her adultery I with John Kenneth Welsh (Mr. G. ] SkeltonV Mr. Alderton was granted leave to withdraw a claim for damages i against the co-respondent, j Petitioner said that respondent and I he were married in April, 1935. and had one child- The first-he knew of trouble in his home was when he received a letter from his mother-in-law last December. He immediately got leave and saw his wife, and. although at first she promised to break the association with Welsh, she did not do so. She went away in a caravan with him and staved at "hotels, using the name of ; Mrs. Welsh Mr. Justice Cailan granted a decree I nisi, with interim custody and costs to the petitioner. ! A decree nisi was granted Enid Mar- ' garet Findlay (Mr. M. Robinson') j against Victor Frederick Findlay. on j the ground of drunkenness and failure to maintain. Sequels to Separation On the ground of separation between the parties for more than three _ years, decrees nisi were granted in the following cases:- — Ruby Lavinia McConueil (Mr. Noble), against Alexander Francis McConnell: Lawrence Alfred Mancer (Mr. Inder.s, against Erailie Edith Mancer (Mr. S. E. Matthews); Winifred Sefton Macßae (Mr. Newbery). against Hector Donald Macßae; Myra Margaret Dodd (Mr McLiver), against Alfred Dodd; Kathleen Letitia Robinson (Mr. Hodgson), against Witty Moa Robinson; Ewart Gladstone Parkinson (Mr. Hodgson). against Victoria Begins Parkinson; Freda Irene Win die (Mr, M. Robinson), against Redvers Caveli kindle; Agnes Thelma Rose Rickit (Mr. M. Robinson), against David Ernest Rickit; >euie Gi«lett (Mr. Townshend), against William Joseph Gi'leit; Dorothv Bennett (Mr. Townshend), 3 gainst Charles Edward Bennett; Edna May Bart rum (Mr. Townshend), against Reginald Sartrum; Margaret McCleary (Mr. Townshend), against William, McCleary Mr. Schramm); Sylvia Annie Windsor (Mr. Schramm), against Horace V mcent WindDecrees on Other Grounds Failure to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights was the ground on which decrees nisi were issued ;n the following case?: —Dora Booth Brown (Mr. Moodv). against Sidney Phillip Brown; Mary Coombe Swan (Mr. MelSsop). against Leonard Wesley Swan; John Richard Barnes < Mr. Fra«rj against Cora Evelyn Barnes; John Bruce Watson (Mr. Schramm), against Gwenda Gertrude Watson. .... Adultery having been proved against the respondent, decree? nisi were granted in the following cases:—-To Arthur ,viliiam WyHie Afr. Hodgson), against Mavis Madge Wy'de (Mr Thompson) and James Phillip., Adams (Mr Thompson); to Hiniriki Toiha (Mr. Wallace), against Ina Hamnera and Wiremn Temann; to William Eric Halliday (Mr. Wa - lace) against Dulcie Lillian Halndav and Donald Howard Wilkinson; to Amy Hisreins (Mr Schramm), against Donald Vivian niacins': to Samne! Henry Davis (Mr. Schramm:, against Pear! Lillian Davis-, and to Walter Thomas Smith (Mr. M. Robinson), against Anna Constance Smith. , Decrees nisi were granted to the fallowing petitioners on the ground of the respondents' desertion- —John Alfred Nelson (Mr. Nutsford) against Mary Ellen Nelson: William ■John' Charles Moffat (Mr. S. J. Elliott), against Dorothv Vera Moffat; Henry Stanley Cruickshsnk (Mr. S. J. Elliott), against Elsie Francis Martha Cruickshank (Mr. Schramm). RESTITUTION" ORDERS A WIFE'S RELIGIOUS VIEWS Five orders for restitution of conjugal rights were granted by Mr. Justice lair and Mr. Justice Cailan yesterday. Differences with his wife on account of her religious views were described by Raymond Douglas Flint (Mr* 1* awcett), who sought an order for restitution of conjugal rights against Cecilia Emmie Flint.' Petitioner said they were both Roman Catholics. He had been a Protestant, and thev were married in the Methodist Church at Whakatane in June, 1941, but he turned Ronwui Catholic on his wife's account. Owing to the circumstance of her marriage, petitioner said, his wile ceased to receive communion from her church. Last August he found that his wife had left their home. She told him she was a member or her church and would not live with him any more. He had a home for her in Wellington and wanted her back. His Honor said that the wife s reasons for leaving her husband were not in law of any validity. He made an order for respondent to return to petitioner within '2l days. Orders for the respondent to return to the petitioner within 21 days were also made in the following cases James George .Bond (Mrs. Thorp), against Rosa Bond; Geraic Gordon Hall (Mr. A._C. Snedden), against Xance Joyce Hall; Stanley Devon (Mr. 1 Fraer) against Doris Devon; Ler> Montague Moss (Mr. M. Robineon). against Jessie Moss. CITRUS FRUIT DISEASES (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Thursday An extension to the orchard and garden diseases schedule published in tonight's Gazette provides for the control of a number of diseases of citrus fruit not formerly brought under the control of the Act. MAORI SENTENCED With a record of service in Greece. Crete and North Africa with the Maori Battalion, Paul McCarroll, aged 22 (Mr. S. E. Clarke), appeared before Mr. Justice Cailan yesterday for sentence on two charges "of unlawful carnal knowledge of a Maori girl, aged 13 years and two months. .Mr. Clarke said McCarroll had been one of the original members of the Maori Battalion. This was his first offence of the kind and he had now been in prison for a month. His Honor imposed a sentence of five months' imprisonment with hard labour. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE A charge of breaking and entering the warehouse of C. L. In ties and Company. Limited, in Khyber Pass Road, and stealing liquor and other goods valued at £9 8s 9d, was admitted by Da rev Gordon Buckman, porter, aged 19, before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., yesterday. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.