MARRIED IN HASTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 23, 19 May 1914, Page 2

MARRIED IN HASTE .

A ; 'WARNING! 1 FROM WjUdCE. i : n,H )!■■■•!.'! >■ . -I dui, h-iii-P- . [Pi»’ sdih : Asßootk l TroN'. ! ] ) ' ! j Auckland,' May 18. The disastrous results of youthfuj and hasty marriages were strongly commented upon by Air Justice Cooper in the Supreme Court this mdfhing ■n the course of a case, expressing the hope that his words ‘"lniglffl H&ho warning His Honor pointed out that his experience j^pwod'that were often entered into without j enj qniries would bd made if an employee were being enl gah'edv 'In T fills''ha'se jf®w6malv , s hid been practically spoiled, the hus^ 1 land’s 1 drunketf Ibarrel ll ''commencing ' from the day- of her marriage. The case was a most unhappy'onto. ■ A girl of only 19 had married a young man who must Have been, accoinUng to tho evidence, given to excessive drinking before the marriage. Accepting the evidence of the girl and her mother that they were unaware of this, and that the marriage would not have taken place had they possessed this knowledge, the case showed there ought to he some system by which before a marriage actually took place, some enquiry should he made, if not by the parties themselves, by the person officiating at the marriage, as to the character and habits of the parties who presented themselves for marriage. ‘