MEALS WITH THE CAT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2600, 30 June 1923, Page 2

MEALS WITH THE CAT.

HUSBAND WHO WAS NOT WANTED. “-My wife told me that her boarders were very select and that I wa> nor pood enough to mix with them and have my meals at the same table." stated a petitioner in the Wellington Divorce Court on Thur--day. “Where did you have your meals?” asked counsel. Petitioner: “In the kitchen with the cat.” (Laughter.) The petitioner in the ease was* I’homas Riddett, who asked.for a divorce from Harriett Riddett »n the ground of separation. Petitioner, who was represented by Mr N. A. J. Barker, said that he married the respondent in 1912, and they were quite happy as long as they lived alone. His wife insisted on keeping a boarding-house, and tidied to the trouble between them. Hiwife told him that as the boardinghouse was in a select locality, it was not seemly that he, a labourer, should mix with the boarders. He objected to that, and decided to leave.

Mr Justice Reed: “I am not quite satisfied about the separation."

Mr Barker (to witness): “What led up to the separation?"—“We had a scene, and I tore the tablecloth off the table. Then I was told to leave. I was told that I was not wanted.”

“Who suggested that you were not wanted?” —“My wife.” “Did you want to stay?”—“No 1 didn’t want to stay when I wasn’t wanted.”

“When you left you understood that there was to be a separation?” —“Yes." Ilis Honour said that he was not quite satisfied that the right person had been served, and when lie was satisfied lie would pronounce a de eree.—Post.