Divorcing and Re-Marrying

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 18

Divorcing and Re-Marrying

Some Interesting Statistics

HAT percentage of divorced spouses remarry? The question is raised by the recently-announ-ced . remarriage of a

Sydney couple. An investigation by the Sydney .“Sun” has revealed that the percentage is not high, hut there have been some remarkable instances in New South Wales. Several years ago a woman prominent in society became estranged from her husband and divorced him, but when she met him again in London during the Great War, the love of former days revived, and once more, hand in hand, they faced the altar. The second venture wasn’t a success, and only a few months ago she once more invoked the- Divorce Court and secured a decree nisi. Thus they were twice married and twice divorced.

The record,' however, belongs to two members of great pastoral families of New South Wales. From early youth they were ardent sweethearts, and married in their early 20's. Several years on a great pastoral estate, and then differences arose which were submitted to the stern arbitration of the Divorce Court. Within five years they were reunited, hut their destiny was not unalloyed happiness, and the Divorce Court a second time sundered them. A few years sped, and for the third time the love of his boyhood was made his wife. xcs before, they failed to agrqe, and the decree of the Divorce Court of this State was pronounced for the third time, twice by the same judge. Here is another instance. Before the war a well-known Sydney solicitor, who was fond of the turf and the fair sex, was divorced by his actress wife. Having been struck off the. rolls, he went to the United States, to start life afresh. His former wife followed him, and when she located him in New York they forgot their differences in Sydney and remarried.