LOCKED UP HIS HOME

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 1

LOCKED UP HIS HOME

HUSBAND SENDS WIFE AWAY With a view to terminating married life, Harold Lenton, of Auckland, locked up his home, and suggested that his wife should take a holiday for three months. While she was away, the husband wrote saying he could not go on living with her. He proposed ahe should go to her mother. This was the story told to Mr. Justice Frazer in the Supreme Court this morning by Ethel Catherine Lenton (Mr. Finlay), who petitioned for her husband’s return. His Honour ordered Lenton to return within 14 days. traffic court items said, ‘‘You fellows don’t hnow your jobs,” complained a traffic l nspector giving evidence at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. * * * ‘My carrier was broken and I had l( * get the girl home somehow,” explained defendant in a charge of pil-hon-riding. It was mentioned that the motor-cyclist had carried his passenger on the petrol tank. • * * The doctor admitted to me that he "as travelling at 35 miles an hour. As a matter of fact, I thought he was Jloing 34 miles an hour.”—Mr. W. W. Murray, Newmarket Borough Council inspector. ♦ * * ‘I have been driving since I was 17 and am now 54,” wrote a 6n^ant w * l ° was unable to attend at the court. “Thirty-four years,” commented the clerk of the court. “Evi®ntly he was driving before there were any motor-cars.” • • • motor * Bt who travelled on Prince’s narf at 25 miles an hour and, jam“Ung ° n the brakes, skidded 33 feet, o • v ne< * that he had been trying to t»» ** Had he missed th e m uil-boat it would have meant a t thousands of pounds of butter ould have been dumped on the Vanuver wharves for want of the papers which enabled it to be forwarded. • * * J as going to see ‘The Girl Friend.’ ” Milained a def % dant in a speeding Jr*?* It was explained that the w lonst meant a musical comedy and • as not speeding to an assignment.