DIVORCE COURT.
OBJECTED TO BACKBLOCKS^
HUSBAND SECURES ORDER. That she left him because she objected to living a life in the backblocks was the statement made by a school teacher named Hargreave Barry de Hamel (Mr L. Tompkins), when applying for an order of restitution of conjugal rights against his wife, Maude Nethsdale de Hamel, before His Honor, Mr Justice Hcrdman, at Hamilton' yesterday. Petitioner, who is a middle-aged man, said he married his wife, much his junior, at Auckland, in October, 1920, and lived subsequently at Tauranga and Rotorua. When he was moved to Russell she refused to go with him, stating that she would not live in the backblocks. He had asked her to come to him, but she had refused. His Honor: What were your relations wiicn living together? Petitioner: It was a case of an old man marrying a young girl. She wanted lo live at home with her people, and I could not get on with them. An order that respondent shall return lo her husband within 21 days was made.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15271, 22 June 1923, Page 5
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