Advocates State Aid For Soldiers’ Divorces
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day Among the applications received by Ihe Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council for assistance from returned soldiers have been requests for help towards divorce costs.
“Regrettable as it may seem it is nevertheless true,” stated the Chairman of the Standing Committee (Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon) at today’s meeting of the council. “It is hard not to be able to see the men through but we did not consider that we could supply funds foi that purpose. These cases arise out of unfortunate domestic circumstances during the absence of soldiers from their homes.” Mr Mac Gibbon moved that it be a remit to the annual conference of patriotic councils that the Government be asked to provide legal advice and service to soldiers returned from overseas who, through force of circumstances, wished to consider taking divorce proceedings.
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Northern Advocate, 30 September 1943, Page 2
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