MARRIED BY PROXY.
DUTCH CUSTOM REVIVED. A young bride, Mrs. Jan Eoning, travelled from Amsterdam to join the husband in Canada whom she married by proxy. She had not seen him since they began engaged two years ago.
"Marriage by the glove," the old Dutch custom by which a man can appoint a friend to aot as his deputy by publicly throwing a glove at him, was revived. The friend thus appointed has the legal power to act as deputy at the marriage ceremony of his client. Mr. Komng, a young Dutchman, emigrated . from Amsterdam in 1925, took up land in Alberta through the colonisation department of the Canadian National Railways, and succeeded as a farmer. He was working so hard that he could mot spare time to return to Holland even for his wedding. Ha therefore appointed his brother to act in his stead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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145MARRIED BY PROXY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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