“Mohammedan women live in daily terror of being divorced,” said a lecturer at Gisborne recently. Under Mohammedan law, divorce was absolutely easy. All it was necessary for a man to do in. order to get rid of his wife was to say: “Thou art divorced,” and divorced she was. He might say so in a fit of passion and when he cooled down he might take her back the next day. If, however, he said it three times in the presence of witnesses, he could not then take her back until she had been married to and divorced from another man. It was not an uncommon thing to see girls of fifteen years old who had been married and divorced three times At the first sign of the “Flu” use Nazol vtry freely. $
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1922, Page 5
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133Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1922, Page 5
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