THE DIVORCE COURT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 170, 13 February 1914, Page 4

THE DIVORCE COURT.

Pokeno Case Part Heard. In the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Tuesday, bsfore Mr Justice Cooper, William McGill, a platelayer, of Fokeno (Mr A. E. iSkelton), set forth desertion as the ground for his application for the dissolution of his marriage with Adelaide McGill. Petitioner stated that the marriage took place at Pokeno on October 2nd, 18S8, prior to which time a child had been born to them. In 1906 and 1907 his wife became dissatisfied with life in the country, and ultimately, early in 1908, became a housemaid in an hotel in Auckland, while he made arrangements to sell his farm. Later she took a position in a Karangahape road tobacconist's shop. His suspicions were aroused by his wife's doircs, and ultimately he taxed her with what he believed had been going on, and the stated that she had "a boy who was good to her and gave her presents.-' They parted then, and since March, 1908, when she had told him to go, they had not lived together. A law clerk gave evidence of having served the papers upon a woman who stated that she was the respondent. His Honor remarked that the case was exceedingly unsatisfactory. The evidence of identification was weak, and the case must stand over for further evidence.