MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
Sv-TH AUSTRALIAN LAWS. WOMEN SEEK ALTERATION. A deputation from the Women’s Nonparty Association waited on the Chief Secretary of South Australia in Adelaide lately, and asked that legislation be introduced to guard against hasty, improvident, and ill-considered marriages. The delegation pointed out that as the law now stood in South Australia any person who appeared to be of full age might be married by any registered minister on the filling up of a license, for which no notice was required. Anyone could become licensed to perforin marriages. While the marri-
•3 . ■ law was lax, the law against obtaining divorces was remarkably strict. The Minister said that he would place the matter before the Cabinet. He pointed out that, while the members of the deputation had said that the marriage law was lax and that the divorce law was rigid, they had not suggested where alterations should be made. Ho believed that the one was the corollary of tho other.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1927, Page 9
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