Wife Enticing
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Green Light for Wife Enticing
If you have the time and the' talent for such things, it wilV. soon be quite lawful in Fiji to< go in for a little wife enticing..
As things stand now, under an. ancient piece of legislation, iti is a criminal offence to “entice', away the wife of an immigrant”.. (Enticing the wives of Fijians’, apparently was quite in order;-, and so far as European wives are\ concerned, it has always been ai law more honoured in the\ breach than the observance).
The legislation dates back tO(. the Indian indentured labour days (which ended in 1916 )\ when Indian men far out-numbered the Indian women.
Amendments to abolish this a provision will be included im the Marriage Ordinance which j comes before the Fiji Legis- lative Council at the next\ session in November.