IN DIVORCE.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15243, 3 December 1919, Page 2

IN DIVORCE.

WATSON V. WATSON

William Charles Watson, engine driver, of Wanganui, petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Phyllis Myrtle Watson, on the ground of desertion. Mr. C. J. Karley appeared for the petitioner. There was no defence to tho suit.

j Petitioner, in evidence, stated that he was. married on November 23rd, i 1910, and resided with his wife in j various parts of the district. For the first twelve months of their married life they got on very well, but after that his wife started to go out with i other men. She used to stay out late | at night, and allowed certain things to I happen in the house of which he did not approve. She then left him and went to live at Stoke, and ho returned to his parents at Belgrove. Aoout three months' later she returned to him, and they went to reside at .Kiwi. While there her baby became sick, and she took it to Nelson*. Respondent said she would not return ur^ss he left Belgrove, which he did, and he then went to Carluke. After living there about sis months slis left there to coruo to Nelson to nurse her aunt, and she did not go back to, him. In a letter (produced) she said she had gone to live with someone else. He found out tliat she had gone to Seddon with a man named Percy Nesbitt. He had never seen her since. At the present time she was in Takaka. Elizabeth C. V. Watson, nurge at Wai-iti, said that petitioner, who was her nephew by marriage, was a man of good character. At tho present time his wife was residing at Takaka with a man named Gibbons "" ■ Constable Edwards, of Takaka, stated that the respondent had been living with a Din:! named Horace Gibbons i'or about six or eight months. A decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute in threo months.