MARRIED FROM SENSE OF " DUTY.
Nine clays alter his marriage, James Gledson Hobson's wife left him, and in the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday he sought a decree nisi on the ground of desertion. The wife's names is Josephine Wakelam Robson. The petitioner said that he paid the respondent’s fare out from England and married her at Auckland. Nine days after the wedding she came to' Wellington on a holiday, and did not return. She sent him a letter stating that she would never return to him. Mr. Justice Reed: “How did she come to leave you within a month of your marriage ” Petitioner: “It was two years from the time I left England until ,1 married her, and I think that during that tune her feelings changed. She married me more from a sense of duty than anything else, so far as I can gather.” A decree nisi was granted.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3880, 6 December 1928, Page 2
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151MARRIED FROM SENSE OF " DUTY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3880, 6 December 1928, Page 2
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