A PROTECTION SOCIETY
(Per Press 'Association.) . Dunedin, last night. According to the report of the committee of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children ever 500 opplications tor help were roceived during the vear of which 356 have been dealt with. The report says We have worse cases of cruelty to wives amongst men who boast ot their thousands than amongst those who have little of the world’s goods.” The -J\u W ‘ Curzon Siggers, who presided, said there was noed for legislative reform with regard to drunken or lazy men, or those addicted to gambling. There had seen an amendment last year, but it did not cover what the society wanted Damely that the stipendiary magistrate should be empowered to order an employer to hand over a portion of a man’s wages to his wife for the maintenance of herself and children. Then, it was no usd sending a man to gaol when he would not support BhoJa m h/’f Bad “u WBS su Sg°3md there should be farms where such men would have to work, and the surplus earnings of ?’“ s accessary for their maintenance and famnies. proPr ' aSed toWa,:ds their wi ™
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1459, 20 May 1905, Page 2
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195A PROTECTION SOCIETY Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1459, 20 May 1905, Page 2
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