MARRIAGE REFORM LEAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have
read with great interest Sir George Fowler's letter in a recent issue, and as the valuable work of the Legal Aid Bureau of the Divorce Law Reform Union has on more than one occasion come under my notice I agree that the existence of this Bureau cannot be too widely known. To enable a petitioner to qualify as a poor person under the Poor Persons Rules it is essential to prove that he or she is not possessed of more than £50 and that his or her income from all sources does not exceed £2 a week. It is obvious,
therefore, that there must be an immense number of people seeking relief whose means are in excess of these limits, but who, at the same time, find it impossible to provide the ordinary legal charges of a divorce suit. To such persons the Bureau will be an immense boon, and it is to be hoped that its operations will soon become more generally known.—I am, Barrister-at-Law.
3 Erskine lu ll, N . 11.
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