THE MARRIAGE LAWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1920, Page 5

THE MARRIAGE LAWS.

• WANGANTJI .PRESBYTERIANS. , By Telesiiph.—Press Aisociotlon. Wanganui, Last Night, The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Wanganui executive of the Protestants Political Association: "This meeting endorses the action of the Dominion executive in bringing before Parliament the inifuitous work of the 110 temere decree in the Dominion; it compliments the Rev. Howard BUiott on the able manner in which he presented our ease to the committee, and assures the Prime Minister that in upholding the validity of marriage according to civil law, and protecting the issue of such marriage from the stigma of il<legitimacy, as also in dealing with those recalcitrant individuals who threatened to defy the proposed law, he will have behind him not only the hnge membership of the P.P.A., but the whole of the l ' Protestants in the country."

ACTION AT CHRISTCHUfiCa Chmtchurch, Sept. 1. * The divorce law and the ne temere de« eree were discussed last night by the Council of Churches, which adopted a resolution 'expressing pleasure at the determination of the Legislative Council to introduce legislation to prevent the abuses occasioned by the operation of the ne temere decreee in reference to mixed marriages. v \

ATTITUDE OF P.PA. Palmerston N., Sept. SI. A meeting of the Protestant Political Association last evening recorded high, appreciation of the services rendered to the non-Roman Catholic community by the Rev. Howard Elliott in directing public attention to the teachings of the , Church of Rome under the ne tenure decree; also expressing the conviction that the amendment to the Marriage Act introduced in the [.legislative Council was desiraW'e in the interests of religious freedom and tolerance, and alio ■ expressing the hope that the Hoflee of Representatives will endorse the Mtion of the Statutes Revision Committw of the Ujsjer House.