MODERN WIVES IN DIVORCE
HOTEL BILL SENT TO A HUSBAND. LONDON, May 5. "I( used to be usual for tile man to write sending an hotel bill, but now it is the woman." Mr. Justice Hill made this comment in the Divorce Court yesterday during the hearing of the petition of Arthur John Dainty, of Park House, Windsor, for a divorce owing to the misconduct of his wife. Eleanor Freda, with Lieu-tenant-Colonel IL K. Sanders. The judge commented on the fact that the wife sent a letter disclosing where she and Colonel Sanders had stayed. "Instead of being ashamed of being taken in adultery," added the judge, ".she writes a letter in which she supplies in a businesslike manner the information required. This is a certain change 1 notice in these days."
The judge granted a decree nisi, with costs.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19270624.2.159
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 12
Word Count
140MODERN WIVES IN DIVORCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 12
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.