DEFAULTING HUSBANDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 3

DEFAULTING HUSBANDS.

DIIN T EDIN, 24th January. The Attdrney-General, Dr. Findlay, was questioned this evening in reference to the cable which conveyed the intimation that Mr Holman:, the New uouth Wales Attorney-General, hoped, as a result of conversations with Dr. Findlay, to establish reciprocity regarding defaulting husbands. Dr. Findlay stated that he had discussed the matter with Mr Holman when he was in New Zealand, and he had readily expressed willinginess to endeavour to have the reciprocal legislation contemplated by the New Zealand Destitute Persons Act placed upon the New South Wales otatute Book. The provisions of our Act at present were wholly in. favour of the Australian States. They provided that husbands deserting their wives in Australia and coming -to New Zealand, could be proceeded against here upon a certificate of judgment obtained by the wife in one or other of the Australian courts. This would enable a deserted wife in New South Wales to take proceedings there against her husband who had deserted hex and come to new Zealand, and to obtain an order against him there without trouble or expense. The order would then be sent over and filed in one of the courts here, and be made the basis of a judgment against the defaulting husband in. New Zealand, unless he could show that it should not have been made in New South "Wales. "We put that on our Statute- Book," said Dr. Findlay, "with a view to Teciprecal provisions being placed in the Statute Book in all the Australian. States, and I have already reason to believe that these reciprocal provisions will be made at the earnest convenient time. Mr Holman readily approved of our law."