NOT DRASTIC ENOUGH.
THE LAW AND DEFAULTING HUSBANDS.
“That the Hon. Minister in Charge of Prisons be urged, to amend the existing legislation so as to provide that defaulters in the matter of maintenance orders shall be employed on some form of remunerative work and their earnings applied to the maintenance of their families.”
“We have been advocating this for years,” said Mr. W. Fisher at the Masterton Hospital Board meeting, when the foregoing resolution from the North Otago Board was being considered. “Those who suffer imprisonment through failure to carry out maintenance orders should be made to earn enough to support their families,” he added, “otherwise their dependants became a charge on us.” Mr. J. F. Thompson moved that the resolution be supported. An amendment to the Act had been passed, but it did not go far enough. He instanced the case of a man separated from his wife and living with another woman, while the board was paying charitable aid to his wife. The motion was carried.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1922, Page 3
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169NOT DRASTIC ENOUGH. Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1922, Page 3
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