BUREAU MARRIAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1924, Page 4

BUREAU MARRIAGE.

AUCKLAND, .June 20,

"I liavc no sympathy for these women wlio throw tt]i a billet, eateli hold of men, and, after a row, expeeL to he pensioned oIF for life,” said -Mr K. IC. Hunt. S..M>, in the Magis--1 rut"’.s Court to-tla.v, when a woman sought a maintenance order against her ItushamJ, a retired railway servant, of Mercer, to whom she was martied three months ago.

Afr Schramm, who appeared for the wile, said that the huband’s declaration was that lie would not keep Iter, even for the King of England.

The .Magistrate: This is tin- ease of a middle-itgOtl Woman illuming tin old fool.

Mr Lltxford (for the husband) : She does not call herself middle-aged. She says she is 3(1, but I think CO would be more like it. Site was a housekeeper until she got into the toils of ti matrimonial women’s bureau.

Evidence was given by the husband that he was a railway employee, and had been retired because of mental unfitness. His pension was 157 8 s per month, and he made a few pounds out of gro-'.iiig land which lie owned at .Mercer. The Railway Department had taken oil acres for railway-men's cottages, and he was to receive £15(10, Inti he had a loan of !J 1(100 from the Sttite Advances Department, and .I*soo from ti mercantile firm. The halanee of the land, 150 acres, was worth about LTO per acre.

.Mr Schramm: Do you swear you never had a bank balance of £5.~-(l!»r Witness: Never in my life. The .Magistrate: Perhaps that was tne bait. (Laughter). Mr Schramm: Do you swear yotn property is not valued at £10,(KM)?

The .Magistrate: Do not be absurd. The whole of Mercer is not worth <510.000.

The woman, in reply to it (piestioi from the lleitch, said her age was 515

The Magistrate: Thirty-live! She has got the figures the wrong way round. “This woman got hold of this man through a registry ollioo,” rt.nlimicd Mr Hunt. "She was earning good

money as a housekeeper, and was in olie place for seven years. Alter being married i'ot' oile ptoiuh site made most horrible accusations against her husband, which allegations proved to be ah-oluleiy unfounded, and the creations of In'r own mind. She left him. and started proceedings, in which I made no order. Sinc e then 1 have bail a medical (orlilicale that she is limit for work at present. As long as she thinks she can live on her husband she will never find work. I will make an order for Ills a week.

One of the legacies of the Croat Wat which X'ew Zealand Inks loceivod is the alarming number of persons with lung and chest complaints or with symptoms pointing thereto. Hive a cold hut hall a cham-c and trouble is threatened. Nip it in the litul with Kofgo. the great cough cure which though containing cresote itt most palatable to the taste. Tile first dose of Kolgo is guaranteed to give immediate idiot and one bottle generally cures. Kofgo is sold at 2s fid by leading chemists and stores, the Wholesale Distributors for the Coasf being Grill'cn and Smith. Cireymoiitli. Advt.