MARRIAGE AMENDMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 17

MARRIAGE AMENDMENT.

COUNCIL'S DISCUSSION. OBJECTIOX BY STR F. D. BELL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. In +he legislative. Council to-day the second reading of the Marriage Amendment Bill, introduced in the House by Mr. H. G. E. Mason (Auckland Suburbs), was moved formally by the Hon. J. B. Gow. Sir Francis Bell objected to the principle contained in the measure, and declared that the Council had previously rejected the bill. Whatever might be the principle of permission to marry a deceased's wife sister it did not apply to a case of marrying a child of a deceased wife's sister, because the child in innumerable cases had been brought | Kp'under the man's roof and the relation ! had been that of parent and child. He was not convinced that there was an anomaly in the present law, as the mover oontend'ed, and he asked the Council not to pass the measure on the assumption that it was to remove an anomaly. Mr. Gow maintained that Sir Francis Bell's presumption would not occur in the vast majority of cases. The bill was a natural 'corollary to what the law already contained. ' The. second reading was carried by 13 votes to 9. , .