EASY DIVORCE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1932, Page 6

EASY DIVORCE

LAS VEGAS RURALS RENO

AUCKLAND, .November 28

“Under our law one can file a divorce to-day, have it granted to-mor-row, and before lira ink is dry on the pen that signed tho decree the Judge can remarry you in his chambers.” This statement was made on the Aorangji this morning by -Mr Fred S. Aliward, attorney-at-law, Las Vegas, in the State of Nevada. He is <a native of Tainworth, New South Wales, and a through passenger on a visit to hjs people in Sydney.

“Reno was the chief divorce centre of the State until recently,” said Mr Alward “but Lais Vegas lias become a thriving divorce city in the southern part, of tlie State. We hajndJ.e numbers cf divorce oases lropi " California, and people Who do not want publicity come- from all parts of trie United States. Since work commenced on tlie Hoover dam, which is to cost 165,000,000 dollars divorce business at lias Vegas, 28 miles distant from the work, has grown by leaps and bounds. Many of the people engaged on the dam have been applying for divorce. J put up something of !a> record recently by filing four divorce I actions in one family in one day.”