GROWTH IN DIVORCE.
SOME AUSTRALIAN FIGURES. Divorce in Australia, and in New South Wales in particular, has had a remarkable growth during the past decade. The war is regarded as a large contributing factor. In New South Wales 10 years ago the sitting days in divorce were three a week. Now there is sufficient business in the Court to keep two judges fully employed if the I’-sts that are presented for disposal at the regular Sittings are to be cleared. It is not an unusual thing for a judge who is assigned this work to get rid of 20 matrimonial suits a day. An analysis of the available statistics from 1911 to 1921 reveals that 47-16 suits were disposed of in New South Wales Courts in that period. Since the termination of the war there has been a remarkable and steady increase in matrimonial cases, the numbers being: For 1918, 380; 1919, 427 ; 1920, 624; 1921, 1038; and the present year will apparently reach, if not exceed, last year’s record. Statistics procurable from interstate records show that during the pre-war period the difference between New South Wales and Victoria was little more than might be accounted for by the d'snarTty of populations, the figures for those States respectively being: For 1911-19 period, 3054 (New South Wale.')) and 2150 Victoria). Of the other States, West Australia has produced a larger crop of divorces than the older eastern territories.
GROWTH IN DIVORCE.
Wairarapa Age, 4 January 1923, Page 3
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