WIFE DESERTION.
» HOW TO PUNISH OFFENDERS, By Telesraph-Press Association-Copyright Sydney, June 11. At a meeting of subscribers to the Queen's Jubilee Fund, Dr. Mackellar stated that 20 per cent, of tho cases relieved were those whero husbands had deliberately deserted their families. This was in accordance with the experience of the Children's Protection Act Committee. ; Of 611 women the committee were assisting, said Dr. Mackellar, 23S had been deserted by their husbands. ~. A rigorous law was needed to doal with deserters. He supported tho New Zealand Government's proposal that the Australian States and Now Zealand pass similar laws to deal with this matter.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 841, 13 June 1910, Page 7
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103WIFE DESERTION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 841, 13 June 1910, Page 7
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