COST QF MARRIAGE.
Mr. T. E. Taylor is not satisfied with the Ministerial reply to his request that the marriage fees charged by registrars should be modified or abolished. The fees for a wedding at a registry office total £2 2s 6<L, and the revenue amounts to £10,000 a year, which just about pays the salaries of the registrars, says the Hon. D. Buddo. Mr. Taylor contends that the Government should make this concession if it is sincere in its professions about keeping the cradles full. "As a rule," he added, "only the poorer classes take advantage of the registrar's office, and they should not be put to an expense approaching £3." At all events, he urges, the fees should be remitted in those offices where tho Government has people permanently employed at general work, of which the registration of marriages is only an incidental.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 39, 15 August 1910, Page 8
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145COST QF MARRIAGE. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 39, 15 August 1910, Page 8
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