RIGHTS OF A WIFE.
MR APCOMBS'S QUESTION. ■ • [THE PKBBB Special Service.] WELLINGTON, August 6. An echo of a recent Auckland Police Court cage was beard in the House to-day, when Mr J. McCombs (Lyttelton) gave notice to ask the Minister for Justice (Mr T. M. Wilford) whether, if the law is that a man may beat, ill-treat, and starve his wife, and provided she can run away and does not do so, the husband cannot be convicted of an offence, the Minister will have the law altered so that the plea that she could have run away from her own home will not defeat the ends of justice.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 12
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