SUPREME COURT
CONJUGAL RIGHTS PETITION DISMISSED In the Supreme Court yesterday Mr Justice Cornish delivered his decision in a petition for the restitution of conjugal rights brought on the previous day by James Lloyd Ferris, orchardist, of Alexandra, against his wife, Mary Scott Wilson Ferris. His Honor said he was not satisfied
that the petitioner genuinely desired the real restoration of the society of his wife. There were faults on both sides, and he thought, that a little more genuine good humour on the part of both would have prevented the present situation arising. However, he was not satisfied that the husband had been guilty of any misconduct which justified the wife living apart from him. The petition would be dismissed, but should a genuine endeavour be made towards a reconciliation, and it failed, the petition could be brought again.
By ignoring the existence of the registered schools and by still regarding them as breeding grounds for a fine oldfashioned type "of snobbery, the majority of New Zealanders were 20 years out of date, declared the principal of the Craighead Diocesan School for Girls (Miss Mary Oakeley) at the annual school prize-giving ceremony in Timaru. She suggested parents sending their children to the registered schools were penalised by having to pay for their education twice.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26956, 16 December 1948, Page 10
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215SUPREME COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 26956, 16 December 1948, Page 10
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