A DIVORCE CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11850, 5 June 1919, Page 6

A DIVORCE CASE.

Per Press Association. Wellington, June 4.

A divorce case, involving a claim for damages amounting to £4OOO, is being heard in the Supreme Court. The .petitioner is Albert Emets Orlando Wellington Brooks, building contractor, of Te Ore Ore, Masterton, the respondent being Cecilia Mary Myrtle Brooks, and co-res-pondent, Donald McKenzie, of Hillend, Bideford, Masterton. The grounds of the petition are adultery. The parties were married in 1901 in Taranaki, and there had been four children of the union between October 1915 and December 1918. It is alleged that respondent had been guilty of misconduct with McKenzie at various places, including his farm. The petitioner, as a contractor, was frequently away from his home, and misconduct, said counsel, took place in his absence The respondent claimed that there wore two more children than were mentioned in petition, but it was contended that two were not the children of petitioner. The respondnet had admitted adultery. Me Kenzie was a wealthy man worth £30,000 or £40,000, and to respondent he gave now £lO and now a£s note, gifts of which respondent used to boast.