ITEMS OF INTEREST

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 26 November 1928, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Ai rs. H I’apps lias i-«-r !ii from a holiday in Christchurch ami Welling ton. .Miss Al. Hemingway visited I’atea tliis week-end. Aliss T. (Hbsou is on a motor tour iu tin.’ Auckland district. Abide ,Suzanne Lenglen 7 s father lias taken charge of her allaivs. He has written to ii i-’rt' m-li sporting' paper stating that his daughter will not enter a public court again. II she ever plays It will he privately. Over HU uin Idem led actions lor divorce and restitution of conjugal rights were dealt with in the Auckland Supreme Court on Thursday, each case occupying an avotnge of about live minutes (says the “Herald’'). In many cases the petitioners occupied the wit-ness-box fur little more than a minute. In one such ense counsel, by means of leading questions to which no replies were given by (lie woman concerned, outlined all the evidence .for the petitioner before she had said a word. ‘‘.l suppose you will say, ,‘ ies' to all that,’ 7 remarked Air. Justice Fnizer W the petitioner when counsel had concluded. “Ves, " ,she -replied,; i ani.id some laughter. ‘'That is all right,’ 7 His Honour said, “but I wanted to be sujo you would say something at least during the case. 77