AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 233, 1 October 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

THE MATERNITY BONUS

CONDEMNED BY THE PItES-

BYTERIANS

[PRESS ASSOCIATION, j (Received Oct. 1, 9.20 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, Oct.' 1

The Presbyterian Assembly carried a motion condemning the proposal to give the maternity allowance in the case of illegitimates, as dangerous to morals and tending /to ignore the importa,nee of marriage, with an additional clause that if the bomis is given to unmarried mothers it should not be given directly, but should bo used for their assistance by suitable agencies. ;

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