Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 19 May 1949, page 2


Husband Spanked

Wife and Lost

Case for Divorce

SYDNEY, Wednesday.

Mainly because he had put his

young wife across his knee and,

spanked her, Lloyd Berrell, 23, of

Bayswater Road, King's Cross, lost his claim in the Divorce Court to have her ordered to return to him.

Mr. Justice Owen said that on two occasions Berrell, angered by the remarks of his wife, put her across his knee and proceeded to spank her as if she were a dis-

obedient child

In the light of such behaviour; he was not disposed to find that Mrs. Berrell left her husband without reason, or to order that she ahd her young baby return to live with him