UNUSUAL CASE.
QUESTION OF MARRIAGE. PROSECUTION FOR STATEMENT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A prosecution of a most unusual kind took place in the Police Court, when Jesse Charles Hawkins, an enginedriver, took proceedings against Louis Alfred Silson, a market gardener, under the v Marriage Amendment Act, 1920. The charge'alleged that Silson, on January 12, “in the East Street Hall of the Pentecostal Church of New Zealand, known as the Assemblies of God, New Zealand, did allege, expressly or/and by implication, that Hawkins and wife (being nersons lawfully married) were not truly and sufficiently married.” . . . The Magistrate reserved his decision.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 6
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101UNUSUAL CASE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 6
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