Those Nights Out

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 8

Those Nights Out

thing that, despite your wife's being bad-tempered, a bad cook, one of the frying-pan brigade, a liar and a drunkard, you should want to take her back? — No, I cfcm't think so.

Lawyer Leicester maintained that the only serious allegation • against Martin was his neglect of Mrs. Martin, but mere neglect and want of affection did not constitute cruelty.

Complainant's counsel, on the other hand, said that Martin's negligence of her had been persistent and calculated to -"bring her down m health.

j "Apart from providing her with a good home," said Magistrate Salmon, "he appears to have no sense of responsibility as a .husband or a father. "For a shop assistant m receipt of £5 and commission per week, to commit himself, to the purchase of a home on the time-payment system, Is probably a wise step, but we find that he has also committed himself to the purchase of a motoroar on the time- payment system, at the rate of £6/11/7 per month— the height of folly. "A boy m his circumstances has no right to indulge himself m a motorcar, or m betting, or nights out m the way Martin has done . "It would be absurd to separate young people so little alive to their responsibilities, but I think that their present difficulties might have been avoided had the defendant employed a wider sense of proportion m regard to his responsibilities . . . "I think these young people should come together again, with a saner outlook — I hope they will — and I think the first approaches should come from the husband. "He has neglected her m the past and I think she has been driven m protest. "I refuse to make an order for separation, but I think that so long as this girl is living away from her husband, she should not be left m a state of destitution. "Until the reconciliation is effected, I propose to make a maintenance order of £2 per week." iitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiititi'iiiHniniiiijiuiiiintiHiiiiiiiiiiinniiiitiiiiimiiujMiiiittiiinHiiiiiiiiiiiinfiJimi. i.tHiini'itiiiiiiiiHiiiiitititiiiini!tiriitniiiiiiiiimiiinimiii!titiliiiiiiiiuiinttinuiiimiiiutijiiuiHinjiiif