WIFE SERVING AS GUNNER
HUSBAND SEEKS RETURN AUCKLAND. June 2. Seven petitions for restitution of conjugal rights were brought before Mr Justice Callan in Auckland recently. “My wife left me when she went to join the Army as a gunner,” said Courtney Stanton Barrett (Mr Meek), who sought an order for the return of Margaret-Barrett; He-said they were married in- October;- 1941, when she was 19, and " they ’had’ no children. After becoming a gunner, her attitude changed, and she had not returned home since. His Honour said that if the wife was not going to behave as a wife the husband was entitled to divorce her. “I hope somebody will expain to her that she will not be a gunner for ever.” he added. An order was made for her to return to the petitioner within 28 days. _
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 9
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