BRIEF HONEYMOON

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20126, 23 February 1937, Page 8

BRIEF HONEYMOON

WEDDING DAY SEPARATION. ‘HAMILTON DIVORCE 'CASES. An unusual position arose at the Supreme Court to-day before Mr Justice Fair, when a petitioner applied for a divorce from his wife whom he had not seen since the day they were married. Mr J. F. Strang for the respondent said that it had at first been intended to oppose the application, but as the respondent had come to the conclusion she could no longer hope to rejoin her husband, he (counsel) had been instructed to withdraw the opposition. ..James Henry .Goodwin, the petitioner, a freezing works employee of PalcM said in 1927 he and his wife were married at Ngaruawahia. A child was born 10 days later and they were married in order to make the child legitimate. The* wife had suggested that they marry and then separate if they did not agree. Petitioner agreed to give the marriage a trial. Signed an Agreement. “ After the ceremony we walked down the street,” said petitioner, "and 1 said, ‘are we going to give it a go?’ She wanted a separation, however. We went to see a lawyer and had to wait for him. “This is quite a new way to spend a honeymoon,” observed llis Honour with a smile. j Petitioner added that a lawyer was {consulted and they signed an agreement to separate, lie had not seen “In the absence of opposition petitioner is entitled to a decree, having proved the fact of an agreement to separate,” said Mis Honour in grantDecrees Granted. Decrees nisi were granted Mabel Madden against Albert Vincent Hoyle Madden, Agnes Laurence against Harold Edward Lawrence and Sidney Alfred Martin against Olga Martin, all on the grounds of failure to comply with orders for the restitution of conjugal rights.

An order for the restitution of conjugal rights was granted George Charles Daubney, who was married to Annie Lilian Daubney in 1928. He lost his employment when the depression came and went on relief work, he said, llis wife went to her mother for a holiday and had never returned. She had taken the two children of the marriage with her.