WOMAN PACKED OFF HOME

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1929, Page 11

WOMAN PACKED OFF HOME

WIFE WHO WAS NOT WANTED. On the. first, anniversary of the.ir.-wed-diiig, Harold John'. Faulkner and his wife left New Plymouth for a trip to Wellington. She was puzzled when. he bought a single ticket for himself and a return one for her, but she. was enlightened 16 days later when he packed her off home, telling her ishe was not wanted any longer. 0 Mary Evelyn Faulkner (Mr. Matthews) gave this evidence before Mr. Justice Smith in the Auckland Supreme Court, on Monday, when she sought dissolution of her marriage on the ground of desertion. She said that the marriage took place at Hawcra on August 3, 1923, and she and her husband lived at Wellington and New Plymouth. The union was not happy, as her husband, who, would not work properly, would not provide her with a home. After she separated from him in Wellington in 1924, she received a wire from, him stating “All's up—good-bye.” Later she obtained a maintenance order against him, but he had paid only .€l. Petitioner added that " she would have been prepared to continue living’ with her husband if lie had provided -her with a home. '-• i - • • • - A’ .decree nj<i ‘was granted.-yStoiv ’ 1 ■’