MARRIAGE WITH FOREIGNERS
PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF LAW Australian Press Assn.—United Service. < (Rec. March 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 6. In the House of Commons Miss Wil\kinsbn (Lab.) introduced a Bill to amend the law affecting the status of married women, providing, that a British woman marrying a foreigner should nbt lose her nationality unless she wished, and that a foreign woman marrying a Britisher could acquire British nationality if she desired. Thb Bill is retrospective in the former’ case, but not in the latter. The mover said women’s organisations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa favoured the Bill. The Bill was read a first time.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 12
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107MARRIAGE WITH FOREIGNERS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 12
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