DEACON'S OFFENCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 8

DEACON'S OFFENCE

REPUDIATED MARRIAGE F?HE OF ''■':■ IMPOSED (Per Tress Assoeint-on.) AUCKLAND, this day. Louis Ali'red Xilsnii, a gardener, [Did ;; dear.in of the Pentecostal < huivl) nf New /calami, otherwise known as t!u- Assemblies of Cod, was to-day line •.'.'> an I costs 'J'.! ISs mi the charge that on January I'-', in ihe KaM si reel Hall of ;ii" Pentecostal Church of New Zealand, known its the Assemblies of (led, New Zealand, did allege, i xprov.sly or and by implicit ion, that Hawkins and his u ife ; being persons la ivt'ulh ma i ried i, were not I rnly and sufficient ly married. The prosecution was the first ever heard and. r the Marriage Amendment Act. The magistrate, Mr. !•'. K. Hunt, said I lial Siisoii, in a lei lor sent fo the complainants, said: '' We have no further fellowship with Mr. and Mrs, I law!,-ins under the present condi lions." Mr. Hum i ravorscd the evidence and said: ''Now thin, coming from a spiritual adviser fo religious minded people like' the Hawkins, mns| be very distressing and disturbing, and is the very mischief the Act was passed to prevent. As it was the lbs! prosecution the penally would nor be heavy, although offenders were liable to a fine of £1'.)(».