25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Marriage Service Words

(from "The Dominion,” April 8, 1913.) The Women's Spiritual Militanee League has issued a manifesto demanding that the British Government shall introduce a Bill revising the marriage service and removing the humiliations placed on women. The manifesto urges the omission of the word “obey” and of the giving-away ceremony, and also that the exhortation “wives submit yourselves, etc., should be accompanied by one "husbands submit yourselves,” etc.

Mr. J. P. Luke, who is contesting the mayoralty of’Wellington against the sitting mayor (Mr. D. McLaren), delivered his first address to the electors in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last night. It was a cold and stormy night, and there were only about 100 people present, nearly all of whom were men. Mr. McLaren opened his mayoral election campaign by delivering an address in the Post Office Square during the luncheon hour yesterday. With some half a dozen members of the Trades Council and four pres-’men as a nucleus, Mr. McLaren collected an audience of about 200.