NE TEMERE BILL.
IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
READ A SECOND -TIME
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, March 26. In the Legislative. Council. Mr Boyce, for the Government, introduced the Marriage Law Amendment Bill. In moving the second reading, lie emphasised that the Government was net actuated ->y sectarian motives. He said the Bill was no new thing, and he asked why there was all this hubbub and suggested ecclesiastical revolution about it. as a Similar measure was in force in New Zealand to-day. He concluded by stating that the kind of religious liberty which gave a man the right to enter another’s home and call his children illegitimate must be curbed, and this would be done regardless of the consequences. The Bill was read a second time by 28 votes to 27.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 March 1925, Page 5
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130NE TEMERE BILL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 March 1925, Page 5
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