MARRIAGE LAWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 March 1934, Page 7

MARRIAGE LAWS.

DISCUSSION BY JUSTICES.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 14

A remit favouring amendment of the marriage law to prohibit as far as possible union of the unfit, also the presentation of medical certificates, was moved by Mr J. T. Griffin (Taranaki) at the meeting of the Justices Federation this morning. There was an animated discussion and the conference carried an amendment moved by Mr J. W. Dove (Otago) “that the time is now ripe for the Government to take definite action in the direction of sterilisation of the mentally and medically unfit.” The voting was twelve to four. LIQUOR FOR GIRLS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 13. Drinking by young people, especially In cabarets, was discussed at length a remit that it should be made a criminal offence to supply liquor to females under the a.ge of 21, Mr A. H. Hobbs (Canterbury) said that girls were supplied all too frequently with liquor at dances. It would be a good thing if the conference indicated that it was not in sympathy with the hip pocket flask practice. In Christchurch lie knew that there was a good deal of giving of spots to gl Mr D. Donaldson (Auckland): lam sorry to have to admit that there is ample evidence in this city to support the remit. He criticised the control of drinking in cabarets, there being, ho alleged, no effective check on spottlMr D McFarlane (Wanganui) pointed out that although a. girl could marry after the age of sixteen it would be a criminal offence, it the resolution were carried, for lier father to give her a drink, even in her own home. Cabaret “spotting” was what tliev wanted to eliminate. The president, Mr A. Rosser, said that most of the “spotting” was in motor cars, and liquor was not taken into the cabarets. The matter was deferred pending the drafting of the resolution.