Fewer Divorces In Britain
NZPA—Copyright LONDON, Oct. 13. The Daily Herald says that 10.000 more British marriages a year are now succeeding. The rush to the divorce courts is ending. This was officially announced last night by a member of the Lord Chancellor’s department. “ The rising trend of unbroken marriages has been held fir the past 18 months,” he said. “In the divorce courts up to the end of last year the figures we have just compiled show that 38,157 persons sought petitions, which was 10,615 fewer than in the year before.” The chief reason for the fall in divorce is that the war-time tendency to marry in haste has been checked. j
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 7
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