Divorce Figures for 1929
COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS YEAR. With thirty-five petitions for tho dissolution or nullity of marriage filed with tho Supreme Court in Palmerston North last year, there was an increase of nine in the figures for the previous 12 months. An increase was also registered in the number of decrees or petitions filed, wliilo decrees absolute numbered 12, an increase of two, and decrees nisi not yet absolute readier 16, representing an increase of four over the year 1925. Additional statistics are as follow, the figures for the previous year being in brackets:—Decrees during the year on petitions filed in previous ycai. Absolute, following previous nisi, 10 (16); absolute, following nisi during tho year, 1 (5)5 nisi made absolute, I (1); petitions filed during year but not heard, 7 (4); while no petitions were in previous' year as against one for 1928. « A decree was made for tho only petition for restitution of conjugal rights received during the year, ‘while foi 1928 there wero seven similar petitions, four decrees being given.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7111, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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