LOST HUSBANDS.
MARRIAGES TO AMERICAN -
SAILORS
Auckland, August 30.
The introduction in the House of Representatives by Mr. H. G. R. Mason, member for Auckland Suburbs, of the Divorce and Matrimonial lOauses Amendment Bill recalls the visit to Auckland in August, 1925, of a division of the United States Navy. Mi'. Mason said that some of the girls who were married to American sailoi's during that .period had not since heard from their husbands and would have difficulty under the existing-law in obtaining a divorce. The records in Auckland show that nine ‘ marriages in which the bridegrooms were members of the United States naval forces, took place here. It is not known how many of the brides subsequently lost contact with their husbands' and are in the position described by Mr. Mason. The complements of the ships which visited Auckland totalled more Ilian 1(1,0(10. The marriage rate was therefore slightly less than one in a thousand.
The hopes of at least one young couple were disappointed, because when (hey appeared before the Registrar the sailor admitted that his age was only id, although he had given it as 21 when arranging for the ceremony. k
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4499, 2 September 1930, Page 2
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195LOST HUSBANDS. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4499, 2 September 1930, Page 2
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