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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 15, 25 June 1920, Page 15

Less than a century ago wives were offered hv auction to the highest bidder in public places in different parts of England. Prices ranged upwards from ls. Twenty shillings appears to have been considered a good price. There was the case of a Midland farmer who parted with his wife for 20s and a dcg. At a meeting of the Cahterbury members of Parliament Committeee with a deputation of the Returned Soldiers' Association recently opposit-ion to the ingress of Chinese and Hindoos, and also of white immigrants, was expressed in amplication of the following remit i "That the satisfactory adjustment of the prohlem of repatriation shall be the determining factor in deciding an immigration policy, and that. the general policy of a white- New Zealand be adopted.