UNUSUAL MARRIAGE PETITION.
Auckland, August 10. A unique petition under the Marriage Act was heard by Mr Justice Stringer in the Supreme Court, today, Florence Ladybird Bingley, aged eighteen years, of Manuwera, sought a declaration that her proposed marriage with John Penbertly, widowerer, forty-eight, was a proper one. The petition was opposed by the girl’s father, William Bingley. m ; Counsel for the petitioner said the sole question at issue was one of the incongruity of age. The parties were deeply attached to each other. Counsel for the defence said when tke'inan was sixty and the girl thirty, the latter would notice the diiference. His Honour said the disparity in age was not too incongruous. If he withheld permission, the couple might drift, into a dangerous intimacy. He judicially declared the proposed marriage a proper one.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2618, 11 August 1923, Page 3
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135UNUSUAL MARRIAGE PETITION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2618, 11 August 1923, Page 3
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