MORE DIVORCES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 18

MORE DIVORCES

TWO UNDEFENDED CASES THIS MORNING

WIFE'S STORY OF CRUELTY

Alleging that her husband was an habitual drunkard and that he was habitually cruel to her, Gertrude Fisher petitioned for a divorce from Sydney Fisher in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Smith. Petitioner (Mr. Dickson) said she was married in 190 S and the parties lived together in Palmerston North until 1929. Since 1924 her husband had been an habitual drunkard, and it was his habit to come home drunk and knock her about. She left him on two occasion on account of his conduct, hut he wrote and asked her to come hack. She did so, merely for her children’s sake. On one occasion she sat on the floor and he kicked her and demanded her to get up. “X often ran out on to the road and away from him until he cooled down,” said petitioner, who finally left her husband in 1929.

A decree nisi was granted. His -wife not having returned to him since January of this year, when an order was made for the restitution of conjugal rights, Noel Storrier Johnson (Mr, Northcroft), a solicitor, of Hamilton, proceeded against Margaret Aseuath Johnson. The parties were married in 1918 at Henley-on-Thames, in England, and later lived at Wellington and Hamilton. There were three children of the marriage. A decree nisi was granted.