WHEN SCOUNDRELS DESERT THEIR WIVES
is the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board’s record of some of the consequences of wife-desertion—a subject which has attracted the attention of Parliament. In 1924 the number of wifedeserters in Auckland was 135. The persons affected totalled 455. Cost of charitable relief amounted to £2,730. In 1925 the figures were:—Deserters 147, dependants 478; relief expenditure, £2,868. There was an increase all round in 1926—deserters 166, dependants 561, relief £3,366. • he numbers this year are, approximately:—Deserters 180, dependants 600, cost of relief £4,000. In addition to the expenditure on relief to wives and families of callous men, the cost of hospital treatment, for which the fees must be written off as irrecoverable debts, is estimated at about £4,000 a year. Altogether, exlusive of social misery, the evil of wife-desertion costs the Auckland ratepayers close on £9,000 a year. The State should keep a rod in pickle for the backs of slack scoundrels.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 8
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157WHEN SCOUNDRELS DESERT THEIR WIVES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 8
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