ROMEO WENT, SO DID JULIET

NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 3

ROMEO WENT, SO DID JULIET

A PETITIONING wife, m the Wellington Maintenance Court; ■**' was asking for the custody of her two children, then m the care' of the father,' Paternal objection, however, was raised, as the mother wanted to take the children out of the country to live with the grandmother m Australia. Furthermore, said the father, the children's mother was not, m his opinion, a proper person to have charge of them. She was reputedly of a loose character, and, so he. said, was known m the hotels as "Cuba Street Kitty/ Petitioner's counsel (to husband): So far as that is con-, cerned, I suppose you are the paragon of all the virtues. ' The husband: I lead a good life. V Counsel; You suggest that your own daughter is not a good girl ? . •" y. ; ■ . y",y The father: I do. I caught her young man getting out of her window. I warned him not to come near the place again, * and the following. Friday my daughter left the house altogether.