PATEA DIVORCE.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14470, 5 February 1921, Page 3

PATEA DIVORCE.

FINALLY DISPOSED OF. (Press Association )• WELLINGTON; Friday. The Pearcc divorce case and complications arising from the departure of the respondent, George Pearce, ex-member of Parliament for Patea, with his daughter Hazel, allegedly in direct contravention to orders of the Court, was' finally disposed of*to-day. Mr. Myers, on behalf of Margaret" Pearce, made an appeal for a decree absolute, and the Chief Justice assented Mr. Myers applied for the custody" of ono of the daughters, a minor, on the understanding that the girl should be entitled to spend alternate week-ends with her elder sister at hci father's house. The Chief Justice agreed. Mr. Myers said, with regard to alimony, that Mr. Pearce had made provision in a manner satisfactory to the pctitibner, and, therefore, it was not necessary -to ask for an order. Mr. Trcadwell said that if His Honour considered that Pearce had directly, or indirectly infringed the rights of the Court, he, on behalf of Pearce, wished to express sincere regret. The Chief Justice accepted this, and said the sole reason the issue concerning contempt had bean raised was to enfoice civil rights, and these were being satisfactorily settled, and the defendant, having expressed regret, he did not think it -necessary to say anything further.