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NON-APPLICATION OF‘LAW (Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, this day. ‘‘‘l have referred tho matter to the Solicitor-General in order that he may report to me as to what, in his opinion, is the best method (of meeting, the ease referred to.” This is the Ministerial answer to Mr. J. McCombs, Lyttelton, who asked the Minister of Justice whether, if the’law is that & man may beat, ill-treat, and starve his wife, and provided she can run away and does not do so, the husband cannot be convicted of an offence, he will have the law altered so that the plea that she could have run away from her own home will not defeat the ends of justice!
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17030, 15 August 1929, Page 7
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117A DIFFICULT POINT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17030, 15 August 1929, Page 7
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