A DIVORCE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1921, Page 6

A DIVORCE CASE.

ADULTERY ALLEGED. DECREE NISI GRANTED. A petition by John G. L. Taylor, of Rahotu, for a dissolution of his marriage with Nellie Taylor, on the grounds of adultery, was heard in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on Saturday. The petition, which was undefended, cited George Beere, of Hamilton, as corespondent. Mr. C. H. Weston appeared for petitioner. The evidence was to the effect that the parties werp married in 1915 and lived together until 1917, when petitioner went into camp. He left New Zealand in March of the following year. He made his allotments to his wife, who was left in rooms with Mr. and Mrs. Beere in New Plymouth. They corresponded until the month of March of 1919. When he returned to New Zealand in January, 1920, his wife did not meet him, and he could find no ‘trace of her. The Beeres had left New Plymouth. His letters to his wife had been .returned to the Base Records Office at Wellington. He eventually heard that his wife was in Hamilton and. went there, where he found she was living with Beere as his wife. He went there with a friend named Whale and interviewed both his wife and Beere. He had never met Beere before. Ilis wife admitted she was living with Beere. as his wife, and said she was thankful when he told her he intended taking proceedings for divorce. His Honor (Mr. Justice Hosking) granted a decree nisi, which may be made absolute in three months. There was no order as to costs.