ALLOTMENT STOPPED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 265, 9 November 1945, Page 3

ALLOTMENT STOPPED

SOLDIER’S WIFE WHO WAS UNFAITHFUL DIVORCE PETITION HEARD Giving evidence when petitioning for a divorce in the Supreme Court, Wanganui, yesterday, a Maori returned soldier said that while a prisoner of war in Germany he received a communication from base records advising him that the allotment to his wife had been cancelled.

Petitioner was Reneti Tapa (Mr. D. G. Young), who sought a dissolution of his marriage with Kanaeihana Tiki Tapa on grounds of adultery, Percival Arthur Hopkiifs being cited as the corespondent. After their marriage at Ratana on January 30 1938, the parties lived at Wanganui x an-.i in the Waitotara Valley, said petitioner. He entered a mobilisation camp In May, 1940, and on November 8 of that year loft for overseas. In April of the following year he was captured in Greece and while in a German prisoner-of-war camp received the communication already referred to. Petitioner returned tn New Zealand during August of this; year and the only occasion on which ho saw his wife was when she was in the street.

Evidence of seeing respondent and co-respondent living together in the Waitotara Valiev in October, 1942 was given by petit-oner’s brother, John Tana Tanganoa. Constable IT. Jolsen (Waitotara) said that on November 3. 1942 he visited a farm in the Waitotara Valley and interviewed respondent and co--respondent. Thev admitted living there as man and wife. Previously, they had lived at Castlecliff for three months. Mr. Justice Finlav: You wore making inauiries about the allotment, were you not ? Constable Olsen: That is so. His Honour granted a decree nisi, to bn made absolute after three months. . r-j" -t?