WIFE DESERTERS.

Shannon News, 29 March 1923, Page 4

WIFE DESERTERS.

SHOULD BE MADE TO WORK.

w ‘ ‘ KEEPf J KICKING,ADVISES" S dr: r FENWICK. [ > UNREDEEMED PROMISES; .. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. '- Methods that might be adopted to -force ' defaulters foj i keep!j.theiii' , wives‘>' and families were discussed at. to-day’s.; meeting df the Hospital Board. Mr Fi Horrell ■ feti'd* ! defaulters I 'in maintenance cases ofSimpiyndefiedvithe Coqrt. They went to gaol, rather than support theit- own wives and families. ’ /Theyi should be made iu work, *wher. ■ ever they went, and part of the money;* earned ought,;to go as- maintenance.'?, That 1 course was followed in" the.case... . of bther crim-imalsv "There "is-another '

thing, we are up againstj’AsaidiMr Hor-! ( xelf r ‘ ‘Mstny .of, these -defaulters 'belongt to wealthy families.""..l will not mention names,-'-.but I* could easily do so. Wealthy'families, are morally-'bound to support their relatives,-but they*avoid their obligations, but hot being legal-. ly bound,; the Hospital Board'can do nothing.f’s Mr W.' E. Leadley said there was need for a Hospital Boards’ Association in order to take* the initiative in approaching the Government -on such matters. :He .moved that the North Canterbury Board should make repre. to the Government in the direction tof . forcing .i'defaulters , in maintenance cases to provide for their. < families, i : .MrH. J. Otley said that at'the next Hospital Boards’' conference an association .wduld probably-be set up to press s the Government to amend, the law.’" • . • Mrs.•! Herbert said she had already visited Wellington- and- waited on the Government in connection • with - the matter;* However, the promises* made by the Government had not been carried out. t - _ Mr Otley: “It was the end of the session.”* I Mr Leadley: ‘.‘Well, we must make further representations. Rev. J. K. Archer: “There will be a new Government to-morrow.” —The motion was carried. “Keep kicking, and we will get something done,” said Dr. Fenwick.