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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 219, 16 June 1925, Page 4

Where are the couples housed who have entered the holv bonds of matrimony in Christchurch during recent years ? Is Christchurch a Gretna Green of these southern lands, a Mecca to which proceed tioops of men and maidens, intent only on tying the nuptial knot in the City of the Plains and then shaking its dust from their feet as ground too hallowed for the prosaic work of earning one’s daily bread and rearing a familv ? Whether or not this be the answer, certain it is that the problem of what becomes of our young married couples does exist. This is the question that was raised bi Councillor D. G. Sullivan (chairman of the Christchurch City Council Housing Committee) at a recent meeting of the council (reports an exchange)