SEVERED BONDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 827, 22 November 1929, Page 11

SEVERED BONDS

(Continued from Page 1.) WIFE'S INFIDELITY Vnfaithfulness of a mother of 13 •tuldren was disclosed when William « Monklev petitioned for release f-ont his marriage with Elizabeth V. Monkley on the grounds of adultery. James O Keefe was c ited as torespondent. . . , The petitioner '-.ltd no married on •pecember *it>» low, in Dunedin, and the couple hart Id children, llis wife had left him r< -.-eutly and was now living with the co-respondent. hi*’honour ‘srattlwf' a' decree nisi. CHINESE BREAKS HOME How a ( ti no: • br«.ke un Hie home rh an On-'lninca. lamilv was revealed I,V Ihe petition of Harold P. Hedges , j|r. Moody > fm* dissolution of his marriage with Klt/abeth K. Hedges on was Tited a * iv.s pomient, for w hom Petitioner aid he was married on May 29, E >rs ;, iid had five children. He had been working at country centres for some months last year. On July 29 last, he said lo- taxed his wife concerning the last child, which bore disk'd homo the .mm da>. A neighbour of the fledges said that while the peril inner was absent from home in May and June last year. Ah Chuck was a regular visitor to the Hedges’ home On seeing the child shortly after birth she noticed it was •*the dead spit” of the Chinese. A brother of petitioner said that his Bister-in-law had admitted misconduct to him. A decree nisi was granted, costs being awarded against the co-respond-ent. On the ground of her husband's adultery with a. Maori girl. Annie. Will'll was granted a decree nisi against Edward Wilson. Evidence was given by a native, who accompanied respondent oa a trip to Kawakawa, as to having witnessed misconduct.