DIVORCED PARENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20583, 5 December 1928, Page 2

DIVORCED PARENTS.

JUDGE CONCERNED ABOUT CHILDREN. (Per United Press Association.! „ T . . HAMILTON, December 4. I look upon the welfare of the children as being more important than the ouarreis of the parents/ said Mr Justice Blair, when hearing a divorce suit Poilfl 18 « r 1^ a . J ra T- 1 1 way l employee, v. May ?; oil 8; . v hke the casual manner matter of th e children Is hpfnL r tll man 7 of 411686 cases, and w/nf 6 fi i“ ake 6 decree in this case, I want to know wljat arrangements have chfld™” 6 ‘M- d to the future of the children, added his Honor, in adiournmg the case for fuller information regarding Rolls s three children.

their own private opinions on that queslion. The solicitor who discussed it was concerned to denounce modern marriage settlements as mere pamphlets. Nowadays, he declared, betrothed beings court by telephone and ‘ marriage settlement’ each other by letter.” He gave this appealing example of a “super up-to-date ” marriage contract; Dear Old Fruit, —Suppose we park ourselves at the altar together; you shall have the run of my rabbit warren and all its gadgets. You know that my jolly old life has had something done j jj ’ }■ mea ? to sa y that when old rtaddy time throws a monkey wrench into my works some giddy insurance company will hand you a cool thousand and you can have my hank overdraft and everything what’s over. All the best. Perhaps the answer was more tart than fruity. It is not recorded.