WIFE DESERTION
Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 3. The Benevolent Trustees have been in communication with the Hon. Dr. Findlay in reference to the question ot dealing with men who desert their wives'. I)r. Findlay, after urging the impracticability ot w ite-dusertors, being convicted iiiiid imprisoned in till' colony to which tiiey absconded, expressed the opinion that it might bo possible to establish a. system of reciprocity or co-operation between the Courts ot Now Zealand and the various Australasian States whereby orders for maintenance might be made in one State in favour ot persons resident in another, and whereby an order made in one State might be accepted as sufficient evidence on which to make a similar order in any other against tlie same person.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3312, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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125WIFE DESERTION Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3312, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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