MAORI MARRIAGES.
THE POSITION OF HALF-CASTES. A QUESTION OF VALIDITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. An important judgment affecting tha validity of marriages contracted by halfcaste Maoris was delivered by Sir John Salmond to-day. The case was one in which MaggieParker sought a dissolution of her mar* riage with Stanley Hector Parker on adultery. The parties had been married in 189-7 by an Anglican clergyman without a registrar’s certificate. The Marriage Act then in force was that of 1880, under which a Maori marriage had a right to be celebrated without a registrar’s certificate. His Honor was of opinion that the privilege of an informal marriage formerly conferred on natives by the Marriage Acts of 1880, 1904 and 1908 extended to all persons of Maori descent, whether pure or mixed. He held accordingly that the present marriage was valid. He found adultery proved an<| made a decree nisi accordingly, to bq. made absolute in three months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 4
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