DIVORCE ACTION
FORMER CABINET MINISTER CONCERNED. (Per United Frees Association.) Christchurch May 25. In the Supreme Court Francis Marion Bates Fisher a former New Zealand Cabinet Minister, petitioned for divorce from his wife Esther Alice Fisher, on the grounds of mutual agreement to separate. Mrs Fisher cross-petitioned on the grounds and obtained a decree nisi to be made absolute after three months, the husband to pay the wife’s costs on the highest scale. The payment of costs of hearing lengthy evidence before a commission in England was left to agreement between the parties. The husband did not proceed on his petition and his counsel offered no objection to the cross-petition. Mr Donnelly, for the wife, said Fisher was at one stage the youngest Cabinet Minister in New Zealand and was apparently peeved at defeat in the 1914 election. He then went to England and performed valuable service during the war period. Mrs Fisher was always unwilling to let her husband divorce her and eventually decided to take proceedings herself.
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Southland Times, Issue 20496, 26 May 1928, Page 7
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169DIVORCE ACTION Southland Times, Issue 20496, 26 May 1928, Page 7
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