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FOR SEPARATION ORDERS. AN ENGLISH BILL. ADDICTION TO DRUGS INCLUDED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. 26, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 25. The Secretary for Home Affairs (Sir William Joynson-Hicks) has introduced iu the House of Commons a Bill to enable a wife to obtain separation on the grounds of her husband’s cruelty to her or her children, even if that cruelty did not force her to .leave him. The llill also includes within, tlie term “habitual drunkard” those addicted to the drug habit.- —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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88NEW GROUNDS Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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