DIVORCE REFORM
(Britiah OfBcial Wireleas.)
Small Minority Blocking Private Bill ACTIONS CONDEMNED
RUGBY, April 17. The Marriage BiU amendihg the law on divorce, introduced by Mr. A. P. Herbert, has reached the report stage in the Commons. ' . . There was a general - expectation in view of the support from all quarters of the. House and represehtative opinion outside, including Chu'rch opinion, which the proposals have- received that the stage would be completed,- but determined resistance by a minority, which the divisions show to number: about forty, prevented it." Owing to the rules of Parliamentary ■ procedure goveriiing private members' Bills, "the outlook for the Bill is now uncertain. The Daily Telegraph, condemning the «se -of technical Parliamentary ob-i stacles to defeat a BiU which has se-j cured' widespread support as embodyingj overdue xeforms, says if obstruction isl carried out in this spirifr it ean lay its, dead hand • on every measure - brought! forward by private members. The' time; has surely come when- the : Government j must abandon its neutral attitude and give official f acilities to this reform.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 79, 20 April 1937, Page 6
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176DIVORCE REFORM Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 79, 20 April 1937, Page 6
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