MARRIAGE BY POST
SURPRISE FOR HUSBAND HAMILTON DIVORCES From Our Ov:n Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. Something of a shock was received by James Westwood Cole, Government clerk, after his marriage with Violet Florence Cole, from whom h© obtained a decree nisi in the Supreme Court. Petitioner said he knew* his wife as a girl in England. They arranged the marriage by correspondence, and his bride-to-be arrived in the Dominion on January 10, 1927. They were married three days later. In May the same year the wife gave birth to a child, and subsequently admitted that the father of the child was in England, but would not disclose his name. Petitioner added that he parted from his wife on the day of the birth, and they had not lived together since. He had learned lately of the birth of another illegitimate child. Mr. J. F. Strang, for the respondent, admitted the truth of petitioner’s statements, and did not oppose the petition.
Decrees nisi were granted on the petition of Harry V. Holmes, vulcanTe Awamutu, against Elizabeth Sinclair Holmes, and of Lillian Holmes against Ernest Holmes. motor mechanic, Te Awanyatu. Both petitions were based on the ground of mutual separation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1002, 19 June 1930, Page 12
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197MARRIAGE BY POST Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1002, 19 June 1930, Page 12
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