RAPID DIVORCE
BUSY NEVADA CITY “Under our low one can file a divorce to-day, have it granted to-morrow and before the ink is dry on the pen that signed the decree the judge can remany you in bis chambers.” This statement - was made on the Aorangi on Monday bv Mr. Fred S. - Alward, attorney ‘ at ’ law at- Las Vegas m the State of Nevada, ,11c is a- native of Taimvorth, New South Wales. “Reno was the chief divorce centre of the State until recently,” said Mr. Ah ward, “but Las Vegas has become a thriving divorce city in the southern part of the State. We handle numbers of divorce cases from California, and people who do not want publicity come from all parts of the -States. Since work commenced on the Hoover Darn, which is to cost 165,C00,CC0 dollars, divorce business at Las Vegas. 28 miles distant from the work, has grown by leaps and bounds.- Many of the people engaged on the dam have been applying for divorce. I put up something of a record recently by filing four divorce actions in one family in one day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 4
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