UNIQUE PETITION
! ; OLD 48 110) SWEET 18. WHAT WILL SHE SAY AT 30? Per Press Association Auckland, August 9. A unique petition under the Marriage Act ."was ~ heard by Justice Stringer „ae the Auckland Supreme Court.:. '.-' % . Florence Ladybird Bingley, aged eighteen; .of Manurewa, sought a declaration that her proposed marriage with. John Penberthy, widower, umbrella manufacturer, 'aged fortyeight, was a proper one. The petition was opposed by the girl's father, William Bingley. Counsel for the petitioner said the whole question at issue was one of co'ngruity of age. The parties were deeply attached to each other. Counsel for the defence said that when the man was sixty and the girl thirty,' the latter would jnotice the difference.
Hla Honor said the disparity in age' was hot too incongruous. If he withheld permission, the couple might drift into dangerous intimacy. He Judicially declared the proposed marriage proper.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 9 August 1923, Page 5
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146UNIQUE PETITION Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 9 August 1923, Page 5
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