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DIVORCE COURT

UNDEFENDED SUITS.

Two undefended divorce cases were heard by His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards on Saturday morning. Charles Pickering Haldane applied fpr a dissolution/of marriage with Anriio Gertrude Haldane on the ground of adultery, George Williams being joined as corespondent. , , ~ air. P. H. Putnam appeared for tho petitioner. V The petitioner in evidence _ said ho was a farmer residing at Hastings. He was married to respondent on August 2S, 191)5. Up to May, 1919, the parties had lived together in the Hastings district. Prior" to'this his wife had once left him for three months, and in May last she left him again without giving any reason. Sho was still "living away from him. There was one child of the marriage, a boy. In December last a letter addressed to hi« wife came into his hands, ana. in ennscquenco of' its contents Jie instituted proceeding l ! for divorce. Bert William Munns, private detective, also save evidence. ,',',. , A decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute in 'three months':

CONSTRUCTIVE DESERTION ALLEGED.

Constructive desertion was the ground set out in tho case of Salter Ingle v. Mabel Josephine Ingle. Petitioner, who was represented by Mr. 11. F. O'Leary, stated that he was a departmental manager for tho Cplon.al .Motor Company. . He was married on Octdbcr 31. IMS, in Leeds (England) o the respondent. Six months later the •, ■forties came to New Zealand. Two yeais U respondent left petitmner. .leforo she left him she .tort .him that sho loved aiiot'icr man. '1 his was in 1.13 while he was dairying at Papain,, did not suggest any. misconduct on tho part of respondent. Sho made trnco f ci | S to Australia. In October, J916, U inner went to England, respondent Sine i« No* Zealand. He returned n J >e, 1017, and resumed lesideneo vitl the respondeat. A year !a or petitions "nine to Wellington to Jive, and XX? remained in Christehurcl... S ,r hen thev had not k.ved together. ■ iTsi "inrv Oicrlrude Secrctan. of 1-cn-die on aw clerk, a friend of both par- ■ HcVdcno«d that tho, respondent had not sought to deny the fact that die was nnt lanpv, as she loved another man, !, 1 furth r that she did not regard l"gle as her husband in the ordinary S °nfs Honour, in reserving his decision, m osomc.n'marks relative to the laws "f «:vorco which arc reported ;n another column. __——.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 2

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398

DIVORCE COURT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 2

DIVORCE COURT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 2

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