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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1920, Page 1

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>EB PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPYRIGHT.,) ALFRED HILL DIVORCE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.). SYDNEY, Oct. 7. In the Divorce Court, Alfred Hill, the composer, sought a dissolution of marriage on the ground, of desertion. Petitioned stated thflt a ftp;- the marriage, "they went to New Zealand. Subs.equentyl lje returned to Sydijey with Ins iyife’s consent. Since then, for ten years, he lpis bpen trying to nduce her to join him lmt she lias not dpne so. S*>:never actually refused to return. Mrs Hill »ave eyidence. to. the effect that her reason for npt joining him was his unsettled position in Sydney. She never refused to return and neyer had the intention of deserting him, and wgs willing to live with hhn. The Court found desertion proved, as from three years prior to 1916, and granted a decree nisi; returnable in six montlis, ©LOOKING WOMEN, ' 'PERTH, October /. To-day, when the segond reading of the Bill authorising women to sit in Parliament was moved in the Legislative Ppimcjl, the President put the motion without calling for fa division and announced that as an insufficient number of members were present the Bill was rejected. • A protest was entered against the non-ringing of the division bell. Notice was given to restorp the measurp. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, October 7. With, ;the exception of & spirited American deniand the best classes in the week’s wool sales closed about on i lon’g-wool was 'offered ahid was not a par with the previous day's.- Little I sold.