Public Interest

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 8

Public Interest

\ ' ; — — ; — - ; ■.. — • main singing part. He is a committee member of the local branoh'of the Law Society, aaad has figured In sporting circlet, | The ©WW,, which occupied only a few minutes, w«s heard before a fairly large gallery of interested spectators. Mr. C. J. Li. White' (Dunedin)' presented the wife's claim, and Mr. Eustace Russell acted for the husband, who did not appear m court. '.AA ■' V ""'.. A tall, good-looking blonde/ smartly dressed m dark material, Mrs. Laura Pryde. iwasi completely, composed when she stepped round to the witness-box to tell her brief story of blighted hopes and shattered romance. • In a clear, cultured voice, she told his Honor that her maiden name was Barlow, and that her parents resided m •Dunedin. On August 2, 1928, she was married to Thomas Hew*! Pryde In the Dunedin Registry Office. There was one child by the marriage. Following the marriage, the young couple took up residence m Invercargill, where the husband was m practice as a solicitor. After living m furnished rooms for a time; they moved to the. home of Pryde's people, and later to a furnished house. • , There was, said Mrs. Pryde, continual trouble over financial matters, » ' . '■•■'•-. — . I