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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 19 November 1924, Page 11

In the days of good Queen Bess an Englishman micht beat, bis wife at any time without let or hindrance; hut when Oliver Cromwell became Protector, a law was passed introducing what may be described as a'very close time for most wives. Theilaar was not made for the benefit of the wives, and it did not restrict the liberty of Englishmen who lived in the provinces. It was called "An Act of Common Council..- . . . For the better ft-voiding and preventing of annoyances within •the City of ■ Londoa,'.' and it' 'declared that "No man shall after'- the' .hour of - nine at night keep any rule whereby any &udden outcry be made in the 6tall of the night, as making any affray f or beating' his wife, or servant, or singing. . : . under pain of 3s 4&." "If you want to live long New Zealand is the plaos to com© to; there is no doubt about that," stated the.Jßev. MaoKenzie; secretary of the Presbyterian General Assembly, when referring to the -fact that, •in New Zealand, the Church, had 52 aged and • infirm