DIVORCE COMMISSION
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DAMAGES INADEQUATE. Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock. LONDON, December 14. Mr Carson, giving evidence before the Divorce Commission, said it would be a great mistake to increase the divorce facilities. The damages awarded were, he said, often entirely inadequate. The wealthy man, with an income of £20,000 per annum, should be mulcted in £IOO,OCO. It was unreasonable that a guilty husband ohouid be left in possession of the greater part of his income. Received December 14, 0.20 p.m. LONDON, December 13. The Rev. W. I. Carr-Smich, rector of St. James s, hydney, giving evidence before the Divorce Commission, Eaid that so far as Australia was concerned, no hardship was imposed upon poor people in getting a divorce. The decline in the birthrate, witness considered, was greatly attributable to the facility with which divorce was obtainable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10145, 15 December 1910, Page 5
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144DIVORCE COMMISSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10145, 15 December 1910, Page 5
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