AN UNFAIR POSITION.
,•1. (Per Press Association.) | WELLINGTON/ ilast ,. night. ! The Second Division League' has discovered tliat iwhereas soldlwis' are compelled to make provision for their wives, sailors in, the _Navy- -are not required to . do So. The case has just cropped ' up whero a , sailor having taken, up wij/ii r,nother woman suddenly, stopped liis allotment and allowances- to his wife, who was left to shift for herself. An application *th rough ■> official channels elicit-, ed the rather .astonishing fact that' there wa's no powcr_ .- to prevent the man's actJOQ. Ihe League is moving the Go- .' vernment to protect sailors' wives resident in Now Zealand in tl ie same way as soldiers' wives are protested.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14733, 12 October 1918, Page 7
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115AN UNFAIR POSITION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14733, 12 October 1918, Page 7
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