WANTED HUSBAND BACK
PROBLEM FOR A JUDGE Air Justice Smith showed surprise when a young wife asked him in the Supreme Court in Auckland to make an order for the return of her husband, who is at present a voluntary inmate of the Roto Roa Inebriate’ Home. “Do you really want him back?” asked his Honour. She replied that he was a good husband when not affected by drink, but he was not very strong-minded. Counsel for the petitioner argued that the application was similar to a number that had been granted in England during the war, when judges made orders against men who were on active service in France. These orders were stayed until the men were discharged or allowed to visit England on leave. An order made against a man on Roto Roa Island could be enforced when the respondent visited Auckland, argued counsel. Sometimes a week’s leave was granted to inmates. As the application raised a new’ point in New Zealand law, his Honour reserved his decision.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 12
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