DIVORCES INCREASE IN ENGLAND
THE UNSETTLED TIMES SHELTER LIFE AND THE SPLITTING OF HOMES. (Reed. 6.50 p.m > London. Oct. A 1 Divorces in England are increasing ’ I steadily says the Daily Mail. Five! (judges next week will hi gin hearing! 12000 London applications, compared with 797 in the Michaelmas term last ; 'year. The Assizes throughout the I country have a further 5000 for the term. ' Evacuation, shelter life and wartime i disorganisation are partly the reasons for the increase. The courts in the • I first year of war dealt with 8400 petitions. The monthly average dropped from September to last March, prob•ably because of bombings, but in- i creased evacuation and the calling up : |of wives and husbands has now broken j i many happy families.—l PA.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 237, 8 October 1941, Page 5
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