KEEPING WIFE IN ORDER
BEATEN WITH KNOTTED HOPE. (Special to “New Zealand Times.”) AUCKLAND, December 2. Allegations of cruelty on tho part of her husband were made hv a woman in tho Magistrate’s Court., at Auckland, in applying for separation from her husband, maintenance, and guardianship of the two children. Mr S. C. Clarke, for the complainant, produced a loin length of rope knotted at one end. The complainant said her husband had beaten her with it. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Beat you with that rope, did he? Defendant admitted that he had beaten his wife, as she was in the habit of goirtg out to dance halls. 11l explanation, complainant said that, her mother looked after the two children when slio went out. Defendant said he had struck his wife only twice with tho rope. Tho magistrate: You had no right to hit her with it at all. Mr Hunt said it was no good defendant apologising far his conduct. He made an order for separation, maintenance at the rate of £2 2s a- week, and guardianship of the children.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11693, 4 December 1923, Page 4
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