Talking to a Post reportor, tho Premier aaidUp to a short time ago lie thought ho had struck something new in his now moasure for preventing husbands soiling or mortgaging their homos without the sanction of their wives, But there was nothing new under tho sun, after all. Ho had recently discovered, during the course of a talk with a tourist, that a similar moasuro was already in force in one or two American States. However, there was no such law in force anywhore in the British Empire, and it seemed to the Premier that it ■would bo an excellent provision for JSew Zealand. It was nocossary for the protection of some husbands as well as for some wives, and Ins new Bill would tend to mske t-ir Bobert Stout’s Families’ Homes Act more effective, in that tho now measure ■would provide an important intermediate etago,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1738, 2 May 1906, Page 3
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