'A Great National Industry'
A section of the population of the United States seems" to be 'coasting' on ball-bearings To Shenl. Seven divorces per hour was the country's record for 1903. ' Somebody has summed '<up the position in the following nutshell phrase : > Ttfe bus-mess of making and unmaking misfit marriages appears^ to have become a great national industry :' >' The * Aye Maria' adds ilhis comment : ' T.ha^ ;the national ]n>dustry will be the national decay it neeids no prophet to foretell.' In like manner New Zealand's legislative and judicial tampering with the marriage bond bodos no good for these tight little islainds out on the rim of the world.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4, 26 January 1905, Page 18
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107* A Great National Industry * New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4, 26 January 1905, Page 18
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