SUPREME COURT
DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS.
Eis Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Eobert Stout) heard a suit for divorce as between David Thompson Mason, petitioner, and Jessie Mason, respondent. Tho grounds for the . application were misconduct. ' .. Petitioner declared Hint his wife had been previously divorced, such admission being made nftor their wedding. The parties' ware residing in Canterbury when the respondent came to Wellington. Ho then enlisted, and came to Wellington to get some belongings from his wife. Sho asked him to take her back, which he did, and they lived at Petone. liespondent again left him, and went to Pnhnerston North. Petitioner went into camp, and before sailing with the Twentieth Reinforcement made his wife an allotment of. pay. During his absence in France his wife did not correspond with him. On his return lie saw her several times with a young man, and she later admitted misconduct. She again nsked to be taken back, but he refused. Ho was about nineteen months awav from New Zealand. Mr. C. W. Tringham, on behalf of respondent, put in a document, signed by her, admitting misconduct. His Honour granted a decree nisi, to be moved absolute in three months.
Mr. D. M. Findlay appeared for, petitioner,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 55, 29 November 1918, Page 3
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