SEEKING DIVORCE.
MARRIAGES ON “THE DOLE.” LONDON, November 24. Disclosures regarding marriages on the dole and the number of such persons who afterwards seek separation are made in the annual report of the Liverpool Personal Service Society. “A striking feature of this year’s case work,” the- report states, ‘‘lias been the large number of young husbands and wives, many of them scarcely out of their teens and most of them living on public money, whp come for help to obtain legal separation.” Just under 500 out of the cases referred to the Poor Man’s Lawyer were husbands or wives seeking separation on one ground or another. An increase from 4-5 to 75 in the number applying to .sue in the High Court as poor persons was another instance of the large number of differences between husbands and wives, as almost the whole 75 wished to institute divorce proceedin gs.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12537, 2 January 1934, Page 3
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