HOUSE AT WORK
SIX BILLS PASSED (Pei’ Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following bills were pat through their remaining stages and passed by the House, of Representatives last evening: Nurses and Midwives Legislation Amendment Bill, the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Amendment Bill, the Arbitration Clauses (protocol) and Arbitration (foreign awards) Bill, the Marriage Amendment Bill and the Judicature Amendment Bill. Speaking during the committee stage on the Marriage Amendment Bill, which provides for raising the minimum marriage age to .10 years, Mr. C. L. Carr (Labour —Timaru) said there had been some misapprehension regarding a question put by the late Leader of the Opposition, whether there had been any opposition from the churches. This question related solely to the point of the recognition of women as authorised ministers to conduct the marriage service.
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Northern Advocate, 18 October 1933, Page 8
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