DEFAULTING HUSBANDS.
DESERTION OF WIVES.
"There are 600 men wanted in Christchurch for wife desertion," said Mrs. A. E. Herbert at a, meeting of Hospital Board candidates. "Women whose husbands have left them are continually coming before the Benevolent Committee. It is very pitiful to see some of them. They are stranded and left quite destitute, often with little children. When the defaulting husbands are arrested, nine out of ten go to gaol and maintenance orders are not complied with. It is a big problem, and it is hard on the ratepayers. They have to bear the burden."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 5
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