NE TEMERE DECREE.
IS IT FLOUTED? So far no Minister has been drawn on the subject of the challenging statement made by the Australian priests that no attention is being paid to the recent amendment of the New Zealand Marriage Act—that, in fact, the Ne Temere decree is still in operation in this Dominion. The subject, however, was raised on Friday in the Legislative Council by the Hon. M. Cohen, who gave notice of a question asking if the attention of the Government has been directed to the recent cablegram from Sydney, in which the Ne Tempre decree controversy was revived. If this was all, the Leader of the Council could satisfy the requirements of the question by a simple affirmative, but Mr Cohen is also asking if the Registrar-Gen-eral of Marriages has reported to Ihe Government any instances of priests of the Roman Catholic Church, or the clergy of any other religious denomination, “flouting or treating the enactment with supreme contempt.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2449, 4 July 1922, Page 3
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162NE TEMERE DECREE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2449, 4 July 1922, Page 3
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