DESERTED WIVES
RECIPROCAL EMPIRE MEASURE. Imperial News Servic*. (Received March 17, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. The House of Lords carried the second reading of a bill to facilitate the enforcement in tho United Kingdom of maintenance orders made in the Dominions and vice versa. Tho bill applies to husbands or others liable who have gone to another part of the Empire either before or after a maintenance order was made. The order must be duly registered and confirmed in the country where the liable person is. All the Dominions, except some Canadian provinces, have accepted the principle of the bill and have undertaken reciprocal legislation. The Lord Chanellor, in moving the second reading, said the necessity for the bill had been accentuated ty the war.
Lord Buckmaster said it was a long overdue instalment of a debt society owed deserted wives.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10541, 18 March 1920, Page 6
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