Advertising for Wives.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4439, 22 July 1909, Page 2

Advertising for Wives.

Christchurch, July 21. At a meeting of the Presbyterian Social Service Association, Mr Rule, the Agent for the organisation, said he wou’d contend that it was very necessary that the characters of a’l men who advertised in public p ints for wives should be inquired into He had under his care at present one of the most distressing cases, the details of which he could not disclose, all the result of an advertisement for, a wife. He knew as a Jpd; that the man had r Ivertfse 1 three tim|flMfe a wife in city papers, and that as a considerable number of women now bore ~ftie brand of shame. It was time something w-a done to protect women who are foolish enough to answer advertisements from men who are vicious enough to adopt this plan of carrying on dastardly work.