DIVORCE DOINGS

NZ Truth, Issue 1018, 30 May 1925, Page 10

DIVORCE DOINGS

Would Not Go With Him

Corroboration Wanted.

Hans Helge Hansen, a Dane (represented by Mr; Luxford), told the Divorce Court at Auckland (presided over, by Judge Herdman,) that his wife would no longer stay with him. The trouble arose when he went contracting at Coromandel. His wife did not care, evidently, to go and stay m that town and with the two children of the unio.n she continued to live with her mother. This didn't suit the Danish New Zealander and because things had drifted he wanked, a dissolution of the marriage. ; .•■ The Judge: Why will she not live with you? — We never seemed tb be able to agree. , Mr. Luxfoi'd: Her people had something to do with it had they not?— Yes. " ...'.' :■■•; .' - ■ '- As counsel stated he had been unable to procure corroborative evidence of the separation since. 1921, the decree nisi was held up pending the filing of affidavit's necessary. ' ALLEGED INTEMPERANCE. Katie Frew, who was married to John Thomas Frew m 1915, told the Court that her husband had been a victim of the dreaded John Barleycorn. As a result she had been a martyr to ! his fits of. intemperance, and he had a fiendish temper when under the influence: Even though they lived in 1 dry Ashbiirton for some years, he coiild still • get sufficient alcohol to drown' his sense's, and she went as far as to., state /that he had taken quite: a part m what the.. Yanks call rum running but ,is known here as slygrogging. To cut a long tale of woe short, she had found life absolutely impossible with him, which drove her from him three years last December. She had maintained herself since.' A Salvation Army v offlcer from Putaruru gave corroborative evidence and a decree was granted. Mr. Leonard was- for petitioner. ; NICOLSON'S NAUGHTY BREAK. John Donald Clow Nicolson was married to Mary Grieve m 1916 and there were two children of .the union. But the domestic life thereafter, was unhappy, because of the husband's addiction to liquor. Mary Grieve came to the Court under the guidance of Mr. R. E.; N. Matthews to ask for a divorce on the grounds of misconduct. Petitioner told of the wny she had been treated by her husband and said he cleared out from their home m December last year. From something which came to her knowledge later she had reason to believe that, he^ad committed misconduct with a woman named Doris Hall. ' .

Evidence was given by v a boardinghousekeeper. Shown a 'photograph she identified a man thereon as one who had come to her ( place to get board ' and lodging. He called himself Nicolson and said at first that he was a widower. Then he. said he was separated from his wife. One day he returned to the house with a woman and said that he had met his wife and they had made up their differences. He introduced the; woman as Mrs. Nicolson and witness gave the cpupl'e two, rooms m the house. ... The < couple used to drink ; together, and then quarrel. 'Because of suspicions she had, witness gave Nicolson notice. to quit.

A decree nisi was granted petitioner, with custody of the childi*en. of the marriage. v '