Daphne May MACKENZIE [589]

  General Notes:

1943 Electoral Roll Wentworth Vaucluse: Daphne was recorded as home duties, of 48 Palmer St, Rose Bay.
Ancestry

"Sunny" Affair Put Engineer's Marriage Out Of Gear
SON of a famous consulting engineer, the late Sir George Julius, who invented the automatic totalisator, George Yelverton Julius, mechanical engineer, was divorced last Monday by his attractive wife, Mrs. Daphne May Julius (formerly McKenzie) on the ground of adultery with one Sunny Foran, a sheetmetal industry employee. Julius is a grandson of a former archbishop of Christchurch (N. Z.). His father, Sir George, was engineer of the West Australian Railways for years, chairman or the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, president of the Australian National Research Council, chairman of the Standards Association of Australia, a member of the exclusive Australian, New South Wales and University Clubs, and the author of classics on the hard woods of Australia and various learned papers on engineering and economic problems.
But Mrs. Julius did not paint his son in very glowing colors. In fact, she said he was 'irresponsible' and always in debt. The normal hours of his homecomings ranged from 2 am to 3 a.m. She also said he had 'popped' her engagement ring for £30 and had then started in to take various other Items, including household accoutrements, to 'Uncle's.' Formerly a saleswoman, Mrs. Julius, mother of two young daughters born in 1941 and 1942, was 21 when she was married at St. Jude's, Randwick, on January 26, 1940. Julius was 27. The honeymoon was spent at Kosciusko and then for a period the young couple parked with Sir George at 93 Yarranabbe Rd., Darling Pt. They set up house in Rose Bay and finally went to 30 Glenview St., Gordon. Mrs. Julius said that her husband, a works manager, was irresponsible and always in debt. 'He was always borrowing money, she said, and he was always out late at night. When I spoke to him about his late hours he said 'I will stay out if I want to. It has nothing to do with you. You mind your own business.'' Then said Mrs. Julius she discovered that her husband was gadding about with a certain young lady. "I taxed him with this," said Mrs. Julius, and he admitted it. He said her name was Sunny Foran. He showed me her photograph, she was in swimming costume, and said, 'Don't you think she's nice?' 'He told me he was going to continue going out with her and I could not stop him. He told me he had meals at her place and said he liked going out with her friends. Julius left the home in November, 1945, telling his wife he was going to live at the Imperial Hotel, King's Cross. There, he said, he would be more free to go out with Sunny and her friends. When the wife mentioned that she and the children had to be provided for, George allegedly replied, 'Oh, I'll send you what money I can.' Mrs. Julius said, 'Money up, or court proceedings or something to that effect, and Julius promptly countered: 'I'll do nothing at all if you talk like that. I'm too smart for anyone to get an order against me. Mrs. Julius said she later saw a telegram, and subsequently told her husband she knew he intended to go to Jenolan Caves for a weekend. 'He just laughed,' said Mrs. Julius, 'and told me he had booked for 'Mr and Mrs. Julius'.' On December 16 last, accompanied by her sisters, Mrs. Punch, and a Mrs. Crosby, Mrs. Julius went to the Caves House. She was inspecting the hotel register, where she saw in her husband's writing the entry 'Mr.and Mrs. George Julius,' when who should stroll down the stairs but George and Sunny. Said Mrs. Julius: 'Surprised to see us, Pat?' apparently a nickname for George. Said George to Sunny in his most wintry manner: 'We are not going to speak to these people.' He tried to walk Sunny away, but Mrs. Punch observed: 'This young lady is going to talk to us whether you like it or not.' Sunny was asked whether she knew she was weekending with someone else's husband. Said that lass: 'I did know he was married, but I thought he was getting his divorce. He told me he had been living apart from his wife for several years.' She was told that George had two little daughters. 'Oh, said Sunny, 'he told me his wife had been married previously and that they were hers by that other marriage.' With George, Sunny, who was wearing a wedding ring, was ordered to vacate the Caves House immediately. The manageress had been present at the conversation and said she would not have them there any longer. She did not want a fuss. Mrs. Julius and her friends gave Sunny a lift as far as Mt. Victoria, leaving George to his own devices. In the car Sunny, according to Mrs. Julius and her sister, admitted she had slept with George the previous night and that adultery had been committed. At a later date, Mrs. Julius said, her husband told her he had been for a weekend at Wollongong with Sunny and two of Sunny's friends. Adultery had been committed again. Mrs. Joyce Ethel Punch, No. 5 flat, 2 Wellington St., Bondi, confirmed the story told by her sister. Mr. Justice Clancy found that Julius had committed adultery with Sunny, whose address was given as 28 Charles St., Erskineville, and who was said to be an employee of W. G. Pickerill Pty. Ltd., 42 King St., Newtown. Mrs. Julius got her divorce and the custody of her two daughters.
Mr. Alan Bagot (by Dudley Westgartb and Co.) for Mrs. Julius.
Ref: Trove - Truth Sydney, NSW : Sunday 18 August 1946

Daphne married George Yelverton (Pat) JULIUS [588] [MRIN: 172], son of Dr Sir George Alfred JULIUS [577] and Eva Drongsia Odierna O'CONNOR [578], on 26 Jan 1940 in Randwick NSW. The marriage ended in divorced 1946. (George Yelverton (Pat) JULIUS [588] was born on 9 Dec 1912 in Sydney NSW Australia, baptised on 6 Jan 1913 in St Mathias Paddington NSW and died in 2002 in Moruya NSW Aust.)