Edie Creek Residents in Divorce
p. 62 · Read in the full issue
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PEOPLE well-known in the Morobe district of New Guinea were prom inent in the Sydney divorce court, on September 3, when J. H. Robinson, 30, analytical chemist, formerly of Edie Creek, secured a decree nisi from Audrey Robinson (formerly Howarth), 27; and Catherine Brennan (formerly Jarmain) obtained a divorce from C. J.
Brennan, 33, now a building contractor at Edie Creek.
The divorces were based on the same set of circumstances. The Robinsons and Brennans lived near each other at Edie Creek. In November, 1939, Mrs. Robinson and Mr. Brennan travelled south on the same boat. At the end of the year Mrs.
Robinson, instead of returning to New Guinea, went with Brennan to New Caledonia. Subsequently, both admitted that they had lived together in Sydney; and neither offered any defence in the suits for divorce.