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NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 4

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Lars Had To Go Back , To His Tent < (From "N,Z. Tiuth's" Gisboine Rep) * It is not an unheard of thing nowadays for young people to get married 'quietly, without any preliminaries, and s then separate almost immediately, but here is a case »witH an unusual twist. T ARS ORLEABORG ROWE and the *-" » young Maori gifl whom he promised to lpve and cherish until death did them part, Avere married an November of last year. t The day following the ceVemony, howevei, the young bude was sent home to hei paients while the husband^, returned — to his" mistress. ,' / This, at least, was the story told to Magistrate Levvey when the young girl ,at>plied for an 'order of separation and maintenance the other day. Rowe, she said, had been working at the Waikaremoana . hydr,o- electric works , when 'she* meti him. At his invitation she went with him to Wairoa, and there they 'were married. She was anxious to return with him to Tuai, but 'Rowe protested that he would not ,take his wife among so many men, and J he sent her home ( A" 1 little later she learned that, the reason' why she had, ribf been • taken back'to Tua'i was that howe was living in 'a' tent with a woman whom he called his ( ""housekeep"er." "When maintenance were first .issued, he persuaded her tb withdraw them, and they went to Featherston and stayed, with her relatives for a time. ' . *~ .Rowe then left her on the excuse that he was going to Wellington to search for work, but s>he learned that he had come to Gisborne, and subsequently gone to the West Coast, where he was now living — and not by himself The only maintenance Rowe had paid was £5, but in^ future^ he will have to find £1 a week., for Otns Maori maiden if he is to ofifey the maintenance and separation order pf the court 1 "\ji^^ _^^^_^^