A WIFE’S DUTY
STANDING BY HER HUSBAND. WELLINGTON, June 16. “It my be doubted whether a wife nowadays is under any duty to obey her husband. At any rate, a husband is very ill-advised to try to assert his authority in the way defendant did. Nevertheless, the wife has duties still and ought to stand by her husband in times o;‘ stress and difficulty and not add to his' anxieties and irritations.” /These/ remarks were ma,de by Mr Woodward,. S.M., when giving judgment in the case in which Ruth Jorgensen applied for separation, maintenance and guardianship orders against her husband, Oscar Albert Jorgensen. Til© complaint was based on the grounds of persistent cruelty, failure to maintain and habitual drunkenness; but the Magistrate held that*’ none of the allegations had been proved and refused to make any of the orders asked 'for..,
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 8
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141A WIFE’S DUTY Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 8
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