ERRING HUSBANDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 9

ERRING HUSBANDS

UNDEFENDED DIVORCES five decrees granted THERE seems to be a great num- -- ber of erring husbands in Auckland. Last Thursday the bulk of the petitions for divorce were brought by the wives, and, this morning, five of the six undefended actions brought before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court were also on behalf of the wives. Mary Simmonds (Mr. R. A. Singer) said she married Thomas William Simmonds on July 20, 1921. Both she and her husband had been married before. She petitioned for an order of restitution of conjugal rights in December, 1926. The respondent had become a drunkard and had been cruel to herself and her children by her first husband. He had gone from home and refused to return, nor had he maintained her regularly. A decree nisi was granted. * TOOK ALL HER MONEY I had some money in the bank and gave him authority to take some, but he took it all and I have never seen him since,” said Ira Cinderella Miriam Nita Baxter (Mr. R. A. Singer) in her suit against Jack Reid Baxter. The parties were married in 1921, and in 1923, when the respondent lost his job, he sent her to her father’s house and said he would follow in two weeks. It was then that he took her money and disappeared. A decree nisi was made. Failure to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights was the ground Rose Georgina Rebecca Lincoln (Mr. R. A. Singer) obtained a decree ni:»i against Frederick Roy Lincoln. Married in 1923, the parties lived together until last year, when the husband left, stating as a reason that he W'as tired of her. She obtained an against him, but he had refused to obey it. A decree nisi was granted. Winifred Burnice McLaughlan (Mr. k- J. Coates) was married to Reginald McLaughlan for one year before he went to the war in 1916. On his return in 1919 they found that they could not get on together and agreed to separate. They had not lived together since 1920. A decree nisi was made. “JUST WALKED OUT” "He just walked out, and did not say anything, and has never come ‘•ack,’’ said Hilda Beatrice Walton, an English girl (Mr. J. J. Sullivan), who obtained a decree nisi against Ernest James Walton. The parties were married in Lancaster, England, in 1918. The two children of the marriage were dead. They came to New Zealand in i 922, and in that year he deserted her and had not come back. A decree nisi Wa s granted. Percy Angus Mitchell (Mr. R. A. linger) said his wife, Amy Isobel Mitchell, married him in 1912. She left for Sydney in 1926 ostensibly for a holiday yiidt, but she had not come back. He written and asked her to come Defile but she had refused. There was reason tor her to stay away from etrn. The respondent was ordered to r «urn within 28 days.