HOUSE OF COMMONS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DIVORCE LAW. LONDON, June 8The House of Commons debated on the report from the Grand Committee on Mr Entwistle’s Matrimonial Causes Bill, which makes the sexes equal in relation to divorce, enabling a wife to obtain a decree for a hus, hand’s adultery alone, instead of having, as now, to prove desertion or cruelty in addition to misconduct. Mr Barnett proposed a new clause, not depriving the husband of the custody of the children, solely liecause lie is guilty of a single act of misconduct.
Dr Chappie, in opposing this, said that not one woman in a hundred would seek a petition if she were going to lose her children, notwithstanding that it was the husband’s Infidelity which caused the proceedings. Lord Rawlinson thought that easy divorce would be a curse to the country, and suggested that the Bill would produce thousands of collusive divorces, the husbands willingly supplying evidence. The proposed new clause was defeated by 172 votes to 25. Mr Entwistlc accepted an amendment providing that a husband could not he divorced for misconduct committed prior to the passage of the Bill, which was closured, and then was road a third time.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1923, Page 2
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