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Divorce publicity

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Divorce publicity

Newspaper reports of divorce ranged from detailed and scandalous accounts to lists of more ordinary cases. Shown here is a 1912 report printed in Wellington’s Evening Post. It names all those involved and the causes: misconduct (usually affairs), drunkenness and desertion.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Evening Post, 21 May 1912, p. 3

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Megan Cook, Divorce and separation – Growth in divorce: 1898–1979, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/29831/divorce-publicity (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 21 April 2011.