NEW VERSION OF KEEPING TWO HOMES
LABOURER SAYS WIFE SPENT MONEY ON HER MOTHER MELBOURNE, August 15.—Advancing a reason for a dispute between himself and his wife, Raymond Hansen, labourer, told the Court that it bad' occurred because lie strongly objected to keeping two homes out of his earnings of 25s a'■week. Hansen was charged with having assaulted his wife, Violet May Hansen, who said: "My husband came home drunk last night, and asked for Is "3d for beer. 1 told him I had no Is 3d for beer, and he then kicked me in the back, threw a mug at me, and followed it. with a statue which, fortunately, missed me." Hansen said that he was not drunk, and that his mother-in-law was the cause of all the trouble. He was "fed up," he said, of trying to keep two homes on 25s a week. His wife took his money, bought groceries and took them to her mother and left them with nothing in the house.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 21, 17 August 1932, Page 5
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