DEFAULTING HUSBAND.
SOUTH CANTERBURY SCHEME. A DIFFICULT PROPOSITION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, .Friday. The Wellington Hospital Board’s social welfare .committee, dealing with the resolution of the South Canterbury Board relative to the suggested provision of a special institution for defaulting husbands in which they would be forced to work, expressed sympathy with the end aimed at, but pointed out that the difficulties under the present conditions were insuperable. ■ Members said the trouble was that if a man was imprisoned for less than three months he had to be housed and fed by the State while the cost of maintenance of the wife and children fell on the hoard. Some revision of the law was needed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15353, 29 September 1923, Page 8
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115DEFAULTING HUSBAND. Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15353, 29 September 1923, Page 8
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