MARRIAGE ENDOWMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 10

MARRIAGE ENDOWMENT

AUSTRALIA’S TROUBLES Marriage certificates from Turk** Greece, Egypt, Italy, Syria, Russia Malta, and declarations by two woae that they are the mothers of i» 14 living children, respectively, art ij. teresting documents recently unfci the scrutiny of the Australian Faar Endowment Department. The marriage certificates were prduced in accordance with the requit ment of the law that marriage be proved before a claim for endov ment can be considered. In two ca«the fatliers are Australian ex-soldiers who married abroad, while in toothers the parents are foreigners w: have been resident in New So. Wales and naturalised the requii.. two years. The translation of the* certificates has meant extra work for the Government interpreter. Birth certificates from variout cour tries outside Australia have reached the department, but ia tM main these have come from Engliirspeaking countries. However, &n ei Digger, who subsequent tj* hi* nurriage with a Gyppo woman served with the Graves Commission, has produced birth certificates from the I>2rdanelles, Cairo and Alexandria. Of the 19 children of one moth-’ whose names have been submitted lithe department nine are under 14 year* of age, and endowment has beer claimed in respect of them. The children mentioned in another dab constitute a composite family oi i widower find a wfidow who ratrrir again, and most of them come with:: the scope of the Act. Families ranging from eight *.o let children are by no means uncorrmor