MOTION FOR SYNOD
COURT OF DOMESTIC
RELATIONS
' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 18. - Legal machinery for attempting to reconcile married people who contemplate separation is suggested in a motion which will be considered this week by .the Anglican Synod. Notice of motion was given to Synod yesterday by Archdeacon A. K. Warren in the following form: —"That this Synod considers that the time has) arrived to urge the Government to set up machinery for a Court of Domestic Belations, at which estranged persons contemplating separation may attend in an endeavour to avoid divorce proceedings, and that this resolution be sent to the Minister of Justice with an accompanying letter of explanation." Archdeacon Warren reported that the general welfare committee of the diocese was unanimous in recommending'as a matter of immediate practical importance the question of domestic conciliation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 9
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137MOTION FOR SYNOD Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 9
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