DIVORCE MADE EASY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 5

DIVORCE MADE EASY.

[To The Editor.] Sir, — You have not answered a plain question. You have not said which, if any, of the grounds for divorce in New Zealand make divorce easy. You continue to insist that divorce is easy, but fail to show how. You attempt to argue backwards, and quote a "flooding of tfer;;Courts with divorce actions." indeed? Let Us take the 'M&tertoii-Supreme Court jurisdiction, and we iind vhat in a very district, comprising ■ fully people, with probably 10,000 married persons in it, there have been five dissolutions of marriage in twelve months! A remarkable flood! And this position probably obtains throughout New Zealand. In view of these facts your reproachful innuendo—that the legal profession is doing well out of the divorce, -.business becomes quite humorous. Fancy—five cases divided amongst about twenty firms of solicitors 1 Your promises being wrong, your conclusion must also, be incorrect. Your comments as to the community being better off if divorce were rendered less easy, and as to the regulation by the State of marriage contracts are, in the absence of any suggestion as to how these objects are to be attained, utterly incompre. hensible, not to say amazing (or perhaps even amusing).—l am, etc., G. H. CTJLLEN.

(After the maner of certain legal gentlemen, we will answer one question by asking others. Does Mr Cullen contend that divorce is not easier now than it was, say, ton years ago? Do the Court records of the Dominion not show an enormous increase in the number of divorces? Can Mr Cullen, as an individual, justify the severance of the marriage tie? Does he argue that prevention is not better than cure?— Ed. Age.)