WIFE DESERTION
LEGISLATION REQUIRED. The lack cf effective means to compel deserting husbands to make maintenance payments, and the Government's refusal to- make any altera lion in the regulations covering the apprehension and punishment of defaulting husbands, provoked discussion at the meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board this week. No less than twenty Boards had asked that legislation of this kind be introduced 0 , said the Chairman. Only those who were in intimate touch with charitable relief work realised what a charge this was on the ratepayers. Defaulting husbands cost them thcusands of pounds every year. Men married young girls and men left, them behind with two or three cht.dreu, and the inevitable result was that they were thrown on the mercy of the charitable aid auth •r-'es Legislation was urgently needed Mr Knight said the growth of wife desertion in Auckland wa s appalling. On the motion of Mr Coyle it was resolved that a deputation writ on the Prime Minister on his return to the country, in order to urge tire necessity for the immediate introduc tion of legislation of this nature.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8475, 21 December 1923, Page 3
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