PROXY MARRIAGES
■- .. .. ARE NOT LEGAL IN VICTORIA
MELBOURNE, Nov. 2,
. Marriages by proxy have. n 0 legal Standing, ill, Victoria. Being a civil 'contract,.-the ceremony of marriage, to becomp, legal, must, be performed by. a , registrar,. a minister, on a .priest, in the presence of the bride and bridegroom.; and,/witness. !•:. i iDuo notice must ho given +o the authorities,-, i arid other rigid < mditions must toe observed.
One day’ in July, Antonio Hctoes-chini-stood, before a priest in Melbourne, and his nveetheart, Giustim; Marteldo,', .stood before another 'in Vicenza, (Italy. . In the eyes of the Church, but not of the State of Victoria, - they. , ; were married by proxy. When the motorship jEsquiJ no berthed at ..Victoria Deck yestei day, they met. -Neither bride nor bridegroom would have any civil'rights under-,the Mar riage Act in Victoria without going (through : the ceremony together.
-• —- • . * , •ing for ever, and I-wish- every member of the. House good health and good luck.”.. ~;■■■ , 1 * , ■ ■' 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1932, Page 8
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157PROXY MARRIAGES Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1932, Page 8
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