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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 7

A girl of seventeen atned Doris Rose, who was committed 0 the Salvation Anmy Rescue Home a ParneU a few weeks ago at her fathr's request, ran away from that instit\fcion yesterday. She is a fair-haired girl X medium build, and was wearing a creamhlouse, a green skirt, and slippers at <tlu time she disappeared.

'Dissatisfied wives in Paiu;. are likely to (find, it much more diflicnll,t o rid themselves of their husbands no, v that they are under Commonwealth (nntrol than .they did when they wexe ans> er „ble only to local custom. In a rep> r t to the Department for External A-jarsj Judge Murray, LieuteironixGovemoi of the Territory, states that if ,a wooan after returning to 'her parents' lionu did not desire to go back to :her h—V_<L, she could marry again as long as th. chosen one paid back to the first husland all the money the latter had paidto her parents for her. Hhe declined, to do 60, it was the custom for all m\ re i a . tions of the two men to have a" fight. If a -widow married again, the new nus . ■band wis expected to pay the roomy to the relations of the dead man. <The natives," concludes Judge Murray, "v/\ a \a very much like to adhere to these tus•toms." The prisoner Joseph Edger, concermjg whose reputed malingering a good was reported a week or two ago, is et\\ stubborn in his refusal to work. B> maintains that he is physically incap able of work, although expert medical ■investigation has failed to find a trace of trouble in the man's anatomy. It\ will he remembered that in Edgcri} case a term of seven days' confinement on bread and water was followed by a second term of the same nature, the punishment being imposed by magistrates, and being conditional on Edgers refusal to mate some effort to tackle light work. Edger has, however, refused to take his chance, and he has since 'been sentenced to-further short .terms of punishment. *