WATSON V. WATSON.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15259, 22 December 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

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. Harley appeared for the petitioner. There was no defence to the suit.

Petitioner, in evidence, stated that he was. married on November 23rd, 1910, and resided with his wife in. various parts of the district. For the first twelve months of their ma_rried life they got on very well, but after that his wife started to go out with other men. She used to stay out late at night, and allowed certain things to happen in the house of which he did not approve. She then left Him and went to live at Stoke, and he returned to his parents at Belgrove. About 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 unfess he left Belgrove, which he did, and he then, went to Carluke. After living there about six months she left there to come to Nelson to nurse her aunt, and she did not go back to him. In a letter (produced) -sh,©' said she had gone to live with someone else. He found out that 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, nurse at Wai-iti, said that petitioner, who was her nephew by marriage, was a man of good character. At the present time his wife was residing at Takaka with a man named Gibbona.

Constable Edwards, of Takaka,, stated that the respondent had been living with a man named Horace Gibbons for about six or eight months. A decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute in three months.