NE TEMERE BILL
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BEAD A SECOND TIME. SYDNEY, March 27. In the Legislative Council, Mr Boyce for the Government introduced the Marriage Law Amendment Bill and in moving its second reading lie emphasised the. Government was not actuated by sectarian motives. He said the hill was ,no new thing and asked why there was all this hubbub. Mr Boyce suggested there was no ecclesiastical revolution about it as a similar measure was in force in New Zealand to-day. He concluded that the kind of religious liberty which gave a man right to enter another’s home and call his children illegitimate must he curbed and this would he done regardless ol tho con sequences. The bill was read a second time by 2S votes to 27.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1925, Page 3
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130NE TEMERE BILL Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1925, Page 3
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