TO MEET DIVORCE COSTS
PATRIOTIC COUNCIL GETS SOLDIERS’ REQUESTS (P.A.) Christchurch. Sept. 29. Among applications received by the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council for assistance from returned soldiers have been requests for help towards divorce costs. “Regrettable as it may seem, it is nevertheless true,” stated Mr. W. S. Mac Gibbon, chairman of the standing committee, at to-day’s meeting of the council. “It is hard not to be able to see the men through, but we did not consider that we could supply funds for that purpose. These cases arise I out of unfortunate domestic circumstances during the absence of the soldiers from their homes.” I Mr. Mac Gibbon moved that it be a remit, to the annual conference o' patriotic councils that the Government be asked to provide a legal advice senice to soldiers relurned from overseas who. through force of circumstances, wished to consider taking divorce proceedings:
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 231, 30 September 1943, Page 6
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