MARRIAGE LAW.
N.S.W. BILL PASSED. (st cabij:—pbxss ASSOClATlON—coptbioht.) (AUSTRALIAN AITD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 28th, 1.10 a.m.) . " SYDNEY, March 27. The Legislative Council passed through all its stages the Marriage Law Amendment Bill, after a bitter debate. Several amendments, moved with a view to modifying the vital clauses of the Bill, were defeated. An amendment moved by Mr Brown to the clause which states that any person alleging expressly or by implication that any persons lawfully married are not truly and sufficiently married shall be liable to the penalties set out was carried. The amendment states "are not husband and wife." This amendment was carried by 37 votes to 20. The Bill was &en sent to the Assembly. In the course of an impassioned speech, Sir Joseph Carruthors said he had travelled with one of the most re;. spected and honourable men in' the New Zealand Parliament, the Hop. Mark Cohen, who. told him that the passage of a similar Bill by the New Zealand Legislature had definitely settled a burning question there. There' had been no prosecution under the Act and no outburst qf sectarian strife, as was foreshadowed if the Bill was passed here.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 14
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MARRIAGE LAW.
Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 14
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