PREFERENCE TO SOLDIERS.
LOYALISTS ON SAME BASIS. I (Received 0.10 a.m.) j SYDNEY, this day. I A special Cabinet meeting" discussed the recent returned soldiers' deputation's ; request, for preference of employment, and decided to amend the Industrial Act to provide this wherever practicable. At the some time Government considers itself absolutely bound to place loyalists who came to its assistance during the great strike on a similar footing.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) j . __X" ; >s-_:ii_l DOUBLE BIGAMY. | WOMAN AND AUSTRALIAN I SOLDIERS. I LONDON, January 2. A woman was charged with double bigamy at Westminster Police Court, and with "defrauding the Commonwealth of separation allowances. The evidence showed that she married Bertram Adshead in London in 1007. Adshrsid is nenv » sergeant in the Australian forces. Subsequently she married Driver Reginald Paterson at Sydney in 19IS, and nevt Serseant William lioban in Ixmdon in 1918. Hoban has since been killed. It was stated thai the woman had Keen drawing about £20 » month as separation - allowances and pension. She was com I mitted for trial. Ar-u='d fainted several i times in the dock.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 12, 14 January 1919, Page 5
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