A BRIEF, MARRIAGE
“DID NOT LIKE EACH OTHER.” Th- stoi’V of a brief marriage was unfolded in 'the Divorce Court yosterc In A before Mr. Justice Sim. when h.hz.JTOi Masters asked fir •’ ''’vo-'-- .■ ley Masters, to whom sho had been married in 1916, in Wellington. Mr. M . Perrv appeared for tne pcuiiouer. Giving evidence, Mrs. Masters said that she hud lived with her husband for ono night only. , "We decided we wouldn t live together,” said tho petitioner. "Vo decided* we didn't like each other. She added that she had known the respondent for twelve months previous to the marriage. Respondent went to the war, said tho petitioner, and she received allotment money from him. Ethel Page, giving evidence, said she had'livcd in tho same house as tho parties of the petition in 1.916. On Hie only night the respondent stayed in his wife’s apartments, he had supper with witness 'and her husband hnd the petitioner, and breakfast the next morning. “On the morning after ho had stopped there his wife told- me they had agreed uot to live together,” said witness. A decree' nisi wds granted.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 42, 12 November 1921, Page 5
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187A BRIEF, MARRIAGE Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 42, 12 November 1921, Page 5
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