PROTECTING MALES.
" Gold Diggers " and Breach ol Promise Action. MOVE TO AMEND LAW. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LOXDOX, November 15. With the object of protecting itupul sive males against "gold diggers," whi have not suffered damage, Mr. W. S Liddall, M.P. (Con., Lincoln) will intro duce a bill directed to reform breach o promise legislation. He contends tha when a girl has spent money on a trous seau, or has relinquished employment ii expectation of marriage, or has beei engaged for six or seven years, she sua tains damage if the marriage does no eventuate, but when a man, suddenl; infatuated, becomes engaged in a fe\ weeks, and finds soon afterwards tha it is a mistake and better to part, h should be protected from victimisatioi preventing subsequent divorce and pos sible trouble to the parents on bot sides. No steps have been taken to amen breach of promise legislation since 187!
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 272, 16 November 1937, Page 7
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