MARRIAGE WITH ALIENS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 18

MARRIAGE WITH ALIENS.

RETENTION OF SfATIOJfAIiiTY. BILL BEFORE HOUSE. (By Tel.egraph.—Parliamentary fieporier.) .• Wl)ELINGi:ON, ; .tliis day. Seeking to give to a. woman who is a British subject the option of retaining her nationality on her marriage with an alien, the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Amendment Bill, promoted by Mr. P. Fraser (I<abour, Wellington Central), was read a second time in the House, yesterday and referred to the Statutes Revision Committee.

Mr. Fraser explained that the present law embodied the\ Continental idea, whereby a wife took the nationality of her Husband,' whereas the amendment sought to bring the law into line with the British idea of nationality, which was immensely superior to that of ..Germany, Kussia, Sweden, France and other Continental countries. He could never see why a New Zealand girl who married a S>vede. should become a Swede and bo denied in New Zealand the Ordin-

feU Sr love With. * --^•gS'-SS ier own natioflality. At #***»* *™* womea were..dAss>a as aliens ril tfte country of their birth, matter had been dismissed .ftt Imperial Conferenfees, and th&f e "bad been no actual 1188tiiity to the proposals of the bill as fat as the Empire waa eblicerned.