MARRIAGE LAWS
' AMENDMENT BILL | -I^L". (By Telegraph) (From "The Mail's" Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Ist August. In the House of Representatives today Mr H. G. Mason (Auckland Suburbs) moved the second reading of the Marriage Amendment Bill which seeks to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's nicco or deceased husband's nephew. Ho explained that such marriages had been made legal up to 1905, but it came as a surprise to many people who stood in that relationship and who had married since 1905 to learn mat they had transgressed the law. Very few people were affected but it would result in a great tragedy to them if their unions were not made legal. When marriage with a deceased wife's sister was validated it must have been an oversight'that marriage with a deceased wife's niece was overlooked.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 August 1929, Page 8
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135MARRIAGE LAWS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 August 1929, Page 8
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