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MARRIAGE WAS NO PIE IN THE SKY FOR BYE

BROAD - SHOULDERED, stern - visaged, decisive in manner and emphatically masculine in his actions and expressions, none could ever imagine Robert Roy Bye in association with aprons, scrubbing brushes and juicy loins of lamb sizzling in hot ovens.

OUT the sad truth is out. Robert ** was a slave of the washtub. He made the beds, he broomed the floors, peeled the spuds, shelled the peas and leaned, hot and perspiring, over the kitchen range and piles of washing up in his Lakemba and Marrickville homes. His profession that of an 'optical prescriptions checker,' and his ad dress 187 Marion Street, Bankstown, Mr. Bye sought matrimonial freedom before Mr. Justice Edwards last week, alleging his wife, Helena's, desertion. There was never any pie in the matrimonial sky for Bye. After his marriage to Helena An derson (25). machinist, at the Beck enham Congregational Church, Mas cot, on November 5, 1932, Mr. Bye, who was 29, a motor mechanic then, and a native of Mildura, was com pelled to kiss many of his fondest hopes goodbye. Robert was compelled to do all the housework — the cooking and washing —as well as being a very busy motor man with Bennett and Wood. Helena was 'disinterested in mar riage.' She toddled off each day to do a job of work with Berlei and Coy. and rarely would she toss a pancake or fry a sausage. 'I was unhappy because she was always picking on me,' said the very masculine-looking husband. His Honor: You mean that she com plained of your cooking? — No. But she objected to me looking after the car at weekends and not racing round with her. She always wanted to be out. They moved to Cxoydon Street,

Lakemba. and then to 2 Jersey Street, Marrickville, where, at the end of 1937, Helena announced that she was off to Kyogle to look after the child x*en of a step-brother who had just lost his wife. Back in Sydney, the wife de manded more money from her hubby, who told her straight that' her place was in his home looking after him. Helena stated bluntly that she was not coming back ever again and, in May, 1938, he arrived home one day to find that a window in the Marrickville cot had been forced and every particle of furni ture had disappeared. A decree nisi was granted. Mr. L. C. Furnell (by D. Lynton Williams, Ellis and Co.) for Bye.

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