DESERTED WIVES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12015, 18 March 1920, Page 5

DESERTED WIVES.

IMPERIAL LEGISLATION United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, London, March 16 The House of Lords carried the second reading of a Bill to facilitate the enforcement in the United Kingdom of maintenance orders made in the Dominions and vice versa. The Bill applies to husbands and others liable who have gone to another part ol the Empire either before or alter the maintenance order was made. The order must be duly registered and confirmed in the conntry where the liable person is. All Dominions except some Canadian provinces have accepted the principle of Hie Bill and "have undertaken reciprocal legislation. The Lord Chancellor, in moving the second reading, said the.necessity for the Bill had been accentuated by the war. Lord Buck master said it was a long overdue instalment of the debt society owed to deserted wives.