DIVORCE CASE
ENGLISHMAN AND GERMAN WIFE. GREAT WAR ECHO. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 24. How the war between England and Germany led to an Englishman and his German wife separating was told in the Supreme Court to-day when Percy James Pettit applied for a divorce from his wife, a German woman, Arma Ottelia Paulina Carolina Franziska Pettit, on the grounds of mutual separation. Petitioner, an engineer, said that he was married to his wife in 1914 in London. In 1915 he came home on furlough from the war and found his wife’s attitude was “very difficult.” About the middle of 1916 he had more leave and found her attitude “quite impossible.” “Two of her brothers fighting for Germany had been killed in the war,” said witness, "and her sentiments were against the British.” Pettit said that the last he saw of his wife was in 1919. He came to New Zealand in 1922 and had lived here since then. Mr Justice Blair said that he would look into the question of domicile and reserve judgment.
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Southland Times, Issue 20495, 25 May 1928, Page 8
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177DIVORCE CASE Southland Times, Issue 20495, 25 May 1928, Page 8
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