A SHATTERED ROMANCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19762, 13 April 1926, Page 7

A SHATTERED ROMANCE.

Her parents having refused their consent to her marriage. Miss Eunice Mary Allen, aged 19. whose home is at Manor Barm Cottage Clayton road, Hook, Surbiton, sam tmmed them before the Kingston magistrates recently, and asked the Bench to gne consent to her marriage with Mr Cecil in. of "nfa^ S rc^\9 U 2^^rl P^trt a h r e D fhe T a e fol[ca P nt'sald her h'ind was 19. and her parents objection to the marriage was that his earnings of £- a week fere insufficient to support two persons She alleged that her parents iad turned her out of her home, and also said one reason why she desired to get married was that she and her young “an had no place to which they could go in their spare time, and they had to walk about the .streets. She added that, in anticipation of the magistrates' decision, she had purchased her trousseau and household linen, and had obtained a furnished room. Mrs Allen, who denied having turned her daughter out, said she did not wish to sacrifice her daughter to poverty with Baldwin. She would consent to the marriage In 12 months' time, and help to provide a comfortable home for the couple. ' The Mayor said that the magistrates were unanimously of the opinion that Mrs Allen was Justified in refusing her consent to tne ma-rlage on the ground of the youth of .he parties and the man’s small earnings. me Bench declined to consent to the marriage.