WOMAN GRANTED DIVORCE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1933, Page 7

WOMAN GRANTED DIVORCE

CRUELTY BY THE HUSBAND. MAN SUFFERS WAR INJURY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, June 2. In a reserved judgment to-day Mr. Justice MacGregor granted a decree nisi in a divorce action of Gladys Williams, formerly of Wellington and now living in England, against C. de V. Blenheim Williams, of Wellington, labourer, also judgment for £463 10s, arrears of maintenance due under a deed of separation with respect to two children of the marriage.

The action arose out of a war marriage which proved unhappy. It was defended but his Honour said he was satisfied from the testimony and the demeanour of the husband at the trial that it would not be safe for the wife to attempt to live with the husband again. “He showed me a wound in his head received during the war,” said his Honour, “which still seems to affect him, and in my opinion to account for, if not to excuse, his cruel and eccentric conduct towards his wife, which is fully set out in her affidavit and which, in part at least, is admitted in his own evdience;”