DIVORCE DECREES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24913, 7 June 1944, Page 2

DIVORCE DECREES

UNDEFENDED ACTIONS CASE OF FORMER CONSUL Thirty undefended divorce petitions i were brought before Mr. Justice Fair ' and Mr. Justice Cullan yesterday. Divorce proceedings against a former ■ New Zealand Consul for Panama, Simon Quires y Quiros, were taken by i his wife, Eileen Balneavis Kinder ; Quiros y Quiros (Mr. Schramm), on the ground of desertion. The parties were married at the registry office in i Auckland in July, 1936, and have one child. The petitioner said that nine months after their marriage they went i to live with her father. Her husband gave her no maintena.noo and kept late hours. When her father and she coin- ' plained of this he left in September, 1939. He promised to support the child, 1 but contributed nothing. In September, 15M], he returned to Panama, and all she had received from him there was a postcard. Since September. 1 939, ' she had received only from him for [ the maintenance of herself and her child. , A decree nisi was issued to the petitioner by Mr. Justice Fair, with in- ; terim custody of the child. 1 A Wife's Bigamy J His wife, Kathleen Maud Huia Chulov, having been convicted _of ' bigamy and placed on probation, ! Joseph Chulov (Mr. Dickson) petitioned for divorce from her. The parties " were married in August, 1935, and htive two boys. A returned soldier, James : Dominic Hunt, gave evidence that he ■ went through the form of marriage ■ with the respondent last August in i the belief that she was single. She i had been placed on probation for 12 months for bigamy, and he continued to live with her as his do facto wife. Mr. Justice Fair granted a decree nisi, with custody of the elder boy to the father and of the younger to the mother. Evidence of his wife's adultery with an American serviceman was given by I Laurence David Mercer (Mr. Moody) in support of his petition for divorce from Peggy Valerie Mercer (Mr. Schramm). The parties were married at Palmerston North in February, 1939, and have one child. A decree nisi was issued by Mr. Justice Fair. Cases of Separation 5 Separation between the parties for more 1 than three years was the ground on which i decrees nisi were granted as follows:—Frank i Sydney Michel (Mr. Moody) against Eva Constance Mav Michel ; Vera Alice Robertson ; (Mr. Tong) against Hector Blomfield Robert- ' son; Erranean McShane (Mr. C. E. Clarke) , against Bernard McShane; Gwenifer Elspeth Bainbridge (Mr. W. D. Anderson) against j Henry Austin Bainbridge; Muriel Roberts (Mr. Dickson) against William Robert > Roberts; Rhoda Lilian Ball (Mr. Dickson) f against Edward Spencer Ball; Marjorie Enid Boyd (Mr. Newbery) against Alexander Boyd; Evelyn Elethea Barr (Mr. Vialoux) against 1 Henry Alfred Barr; Russell James Har- ■ rison (Mr Prendergast) against Vera May > Harrison; Charles Onslow Madigan (Mr. Snedden) against Gertrude Amy Madigan. • On the ground of the respondent's adultery [ decrees nisi were granted in the following 1 cases:—William Raymond Russell (Mr. H. ; lan Simson) against Dulcie Edna Russell and Terence Leslie Zachan; Gibson Leonard I. Petchell (Mr. W. I). Anderson) against t Gladys Elsie Petchell; Peter William Bryant (Mr. W. D. Anderson) against Joyce Henrietta Bryant and Lester Matson; Dorothy May O'Meara (Mr. Dickson) against Des- : mend Stanley O'Meara; Harold Mason Albert I (Mr. Wily) against La Belle Myrtle Albert I and John Brunt; Basil Arundel Albert Smith (Mr. Fawcett) against Monica Lorraine Julia Smith. Other Grounds ' The respondent having failed to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal i rights, decrees nisi were issued in the following cases: —William Arthur Raymond Tregidga (Mr. C. E. Clarke) against Winifred Maud Tregidga; William Cyril Sadgrove (Mr. Dickson) against Eileen Lillian Sadgrove; Owen Alfred Hughes (Mr. Dickson) against » Idra Lorraine Hughes; Reynold Cosmia Lee ; : (Mr. Robinson) against Ira Adelaide Lee; i Clifford Mortimer (Mr. Goldwater) against Eleanor Ruth Mortimer; Edith Winifred ' ! Angelo (Mr. Vialoux) against Alien Arthur • j Angelo. . S Decrees nisi were issued in the following : cases on the ground of desertion by the re- ; spondent : —Millicent Hillman (Mr. Schramm) j against William Charles Hillman; Frederick ; William Jones-Prosser (Mr. Prendergast) ; against Marguerite Prosser. ; | ORDERS TO RETURN PETITIONS BY SERVICEMEN Orders for the return of a husband :or wife were issued on 13 petitions brought before Mr. Justice I'air and j Mr. Justice Callan yesterday, j A .soldier on leave from the Pacific, Thomas Victor Bedelph (Mr. C. E. | Clarke), sought an order for the return |to him of his wife, Verna Leonora I Bedelph. The petitioner said he was ; in the Army when they were married in i November, 1942, and they lived at her | mother's home. They had two children, and had been very happy until last November he received a letter from his wife saying she had formed an association with another man, and asking him to divorce her. On account of this, he obtained leave to return to New Zealand. He found his wife had left her mother's home and she refused to return to him. An order wa.s issued requiring the respondent to return within 28 days. A railwayman who had seen service with the New Zealand railway unit overseas, Frank Owen Charlton Lubbock (Mr. Holmdon), sought an order for the return of his wife, Yvonne Elvira Lubbock. The petitioner said he returned to New Zealand last July after three years' absence, and when he was i I sent by the Railway Department to ] Pukekohe his wife refused to accompany ] him there, although he had secured a I State house. She said she was happier ! where she was. An order was made for ; the respondent to return within 28 I days. j Orders for the respondent to return within ! 28 days were made in the cases of John Robert Gervaso Andrew (Mr. L. G. Simpson), against Margaret Adelaide Andrew; Edward Andrew Sullivan (Mr. Meek), against Ireno Sullivan; Ralph Raymond Urquhart (Mr. Cleal). against Hazel May Urquhart; Ronald Frankland Bright (Mr. deal), against Hilary Gertrude Bright; Stella Victoria Cuthbertson (Mr. Dickson) against Robert Edgar Cuthbertson; Kathleen Eagon Webb (Mr. Robinson), against Stanley George Webb The period for return was fixed at two months in the case of James Smith Leslie Johnston (Mr. Schramm), against Alice Johnston; at 21 days in the cases of Ronald William Crowder (Mr. Goldstinc). against Ursula Joan Crowder; Leonard Eden Jeffries (Mr. Brainsby), against Edna Constance Jeffries; and Hone John Henderson (Mr. Thwaites). against Freda Mavis Henderson; and at It days in the caso of Noel Barrett (Mr. Lovegrove). against Gwendoline Edna Barrett. death""of schoolboy A verdict that death was due to acute general toxaemia ami cerebral congestion, secondary to a streptococcal infection, was returned bv the city coroner, Mr. A. Addison, when he concluded an inquest into the death of a schoolboy, Robert Leslie Rose, aged 8, son of Mr. L. A. Rose, of 1.319 Dominion Road, Mount Hoskill. Evidence was given that the boy knocked ft pot of boiling water from a stove while-stay-ing with relatives and received scalds to an arm. Two days later he was ordered to the Auckland Hospital, where his death occurred later. Medical evidence showed that death was attributable to toxaemia, and not to scalding.