JUDGE CRITICAL
WIFE’S ATTITUDE IN DIVORCE CASE MAINTENANCE REQUEST WITHDRAWN [ Per Press Association.) NAPIER, Feb. 24. “I am not going to look kindly on an application for maintenance by a young woman' of 24 when there is plenty of work, even if she is not willing to give wifely services or has been driven out of her home,” said Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court during the hearing of a divorce action. The husband sought divorce on the grounds of desertion and his wife prayed for rejection of the application and the granting of a divorce to her. After a brief consultation the parties announced- that the defence would be withdrawn. Its plea and a decree nisi was granted the husband.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 9
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122JUDGE CRITICAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 9
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