Wife With an Income —But She Nagged

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 12

Wife With an Income —But She Nagged

HUSBAND LEFT HOME AND JOB SEEKING PEACE (Special to THE BUN. ) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. “He said £e was going back to the girl he turned down to marry me,’’ was the sad complaint of a woman who came to the Police Court this afternoon to ask Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M.. to make an order for separation and maintenance against her husband. John Christopher deserted JCleanor. his wife, because he said her nagging tongue made life miserable for him Her private income of £2OO a year evidently did not compensate for the loss of freedom. Mrs. Christopher said that four months ago her husband had taken his belongings and walked out of the house. She was a widow when she married him. Cross-examined by Mr. F. D. Sargent, for the defendant, witness admitted that she had also £2 or £2 10s a week from the rent of her house, in addition to her own £2OO a year. Mr. Sargent submitted that there was no question as to making a maintenance order when Mrs. Christopher’s income exceeded her husband's earnings. Christopher, in evidence, denied that he drank to excess. He suggested that his wife was the one who looked too often on the flowing bowl. He had walked out of the home oecause of his wife’s “nig-nagging.’’ Christopher added that his wife had pestered him on the streets after ne left, and he resigned his job in the Post Office and went to Otaki to escape her, but she followed him even there. The magistrate said that he would consider his decision.