DIVORCE COSTS
APPLICATIONS BY SOLDIERS LEGAL ADVICE SERVICE PROPOSED (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 29. Among the applications received by the 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 Mr W. S-. Mac Gibbon, chairman- of the Standing Committee, at to-day’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 for 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 a legal advice service to soldiers returned from overseas, who through force of circumstances, wish to consider taking divorce proceedings. The proposal was adopted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25344, 30 September 1943, Page 4
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