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MORE AND MORE DIVORCES.

WHAT THE OFFICIAL RETURNS SHOW.

GAS CHAIRMAN'S ·

ALLEGATIONS.

TYRANNICAL METHODS" OF LOCAL BODIES.

A striking increase in the growth Sir David Milne Watson, Gover of divorce is revealed by official nor of the Gas Light and Coke Com- statistics for Great Britain, pub-pany. nt thu Annual meeting Hshed by the Stationery office, dur-criticised; the activities of Mr. ing the last twenty years.

Morrison, the Minister of Trans- There were 3,396 divorce decrees port, in conducting a pro-electricity in England and Wales during 1929;|campaign.

and it is anticipated that the num- It was the obvious duty of a ber for 1920 will be between 4,500 Minister of the Grown, he declared,! and 5,000. The official figure for to hold the scales between rival in- dustrial and commercial interests. 1913 was 677.

Mr. Morrison's nction in conducting a pro-electricity campaign. both in London and in the Provinces, was inequitable and unprecedented.

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Divorces have become more and more frequent in all parts of the country and among all classes. fower and fewer petitions have been

The tyrannical methods" adopted | defended, and there is every judica by local authorities owning electri- tion that the number of decrees,

city undertakings to compet made absolute will continue to grow tenants on their housing estates to year by year until they reach i figure that before the war would use electricity for any and every

Irrespective of the have been considered beyond belief. purpose,

Intive cost and relative merits of Decrves granted in the first post-gas and electricity, were also re- Wa year totalled 1.654. Thereferred to by Sir David, who lin- was a leap in the figures during stanced cases where tenants were 1920 and 1921, and totals then threatened with eviction if they steadied in the neighbourhood of dared to approach the local gas com- 2,500 for five years, but since 1926 pany for a supply of gaa. One local there has been a remarkable In-authority, he declared, had gone so STRISË. There are over 900 cases far in endeavouring to prevent ite for hearing in London alone dur-tenants utilising gas, as to block up ing the present law terms.

the gas pipes with liquid cement.

Gus administrators and ga- The astonishing increase in de- vorce is to some extent attributable | workers alike were determined to to the order of 1926, which graufed put an end to this state of affairs.. Jurisdiction in Poor Persons cases

to certain High Court District Res

gistries in England and Wales, the years, though a total figure is not number subsequently belug in-vailable, the average was only 582. creased. Matrimonial cases thus be The official statisties also show Iriable at Assize Courts that the percentage of persons niar- the first. time In English ried per thousand of the population legal history. and the

im in England and Wales in 1920 was mediate

11224 effect irrease in the number of divorces in in the country districts.

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than in 1929, the number of divorce decrees in-nearly 80,000 less Preused considerably, until the num-while no year has shown an in- her granted annually ut Assize crease in the marriage rate in any Conrts alone is more than double) way proportionate to the increase the pre-1929 totals for the entire in divorces. country.

of illegitimate The percentage births has remained practically the Assize Court Decrees.

same for 26 years. Decrees granted at Assize Courts Simultaneously with the increase during the last five years have pro-in divorce there has been a rapid dured an average of roughly 2,000. growth in the proportion of peti- and in the against a slightly higher figure for tions filed by women the Metropolis.

number of allegations of perjury,

A BROKEN DOWN.SYSTEM. "This lea condition (ar discuss) to which deosone KİTS MARY GAMan, buy which low of them really informant. Attenmplywoskusosa-a brash down, DEN WAZO, of the vizh) farson that wasikin the gyp- KAMIONtset whutmay bella cattues (UA) Kro lombarioss), kes ajusphotos nãy much the monthly the more prontaust bolag steeplessness; ms of provermilou er wanrizzone, depression of KELTICI Kód Wins of quarry for all the ordinary Marsalis. Now,whatsions is absolutely assessi tal to all such vases in tocrossed vickitty-vigour, vital tregth and energy to throw off these morbiditlings, and as tighi succeeds the day this may be more pertainly secured by a course of THE NEW FRENCH RÉMEDY.

National figures, taken as a whole connivance and collusion The num- THERAPION No. 3 before and after the Judical Prober of interventions by the King's reedings Act of December, 1926, Proctor Bas largely increnset, until when full reports of matrimonial during 1930 there were fully 100 all of which cases were tande illegal, present an interventions nearly even more remarkable picture. The were successful. total number of divorces granted In spite of the fact that the Order during the five yeara 1926-1926, together with the Matri- of 1923, hus 1930 was about 17,720, giving on moniat Causes Act annual average of 3,545.

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