COMMENT BY JUDGE
“ WORK FOR WOMEN ” MAINTENANCE APPLICATIONS (By Telegraph.—\«*oriatlnn) NAPIER, Friday “I am not going to look kindly on an application for maintenance by a young woman of 24 when there is plenty of work, even if she is not willing to give wifely services or if she has been driven out of her home,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court during a hearing of a divorce action in which a husband sought a divorce on the grounds of desertion. The wife prayed for a rejection of the application and the granting of a divorce to her. After a brief consultation of the parties it was announced that the defence had been withdrawn and a decree nisi was granted the husband.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 12
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124COMMENT BY JUDGE Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 12
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