EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE IN DIVORCE.
(UNITED PREPS ASSOCIATION.— COPTRIfiHT.)
WASHINGTON, 4th February. In the United States Senate, Senator Randell, Louisiana, pointed out that 9000 divorces were granted in 1867,. or 27 per 100,000, of the population. Seventy thousand divorces were granted in 1906, or 86 per 100,000 of the population. '
Allowing for the increase in population divorces had increased in. 40 years, said Senator Randell, by 319 per cent.— (This cable was published in every New Zealand newspaper.) .
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 11
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77EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE IN DIVORCE. Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 11
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