AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3576, 11 September 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CATHOLICS AND MARRIAGE. Received 9.20 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. With reference to the allegations that attempts made in Australia to inquire into the operations of the Ne Temere Decree had been frustrated, the Rev. Professor Mclntyre, secretary of the Committee of Protestant Churches, which dealt with the subject, explains that the only matter the Committee concerned themselves with was that the New South, Wales State authorities should not, as they had been doing in ’ some instances, register mixed marriages where the ceremony was again performed at the instigation of Catholic priests. Their efforts had resulted in the AttorneyGeneral issuing a regulation against such, registration, unless there was reasonable doubt as to the validity of djhe first ceremony. iTAX ON RACECOURSE TICKETS. SYDNEY, Sept. 10. It is unofficially stated that the fs Government has decided to impose a -tax on racecourse admission ■tickets. This is expected to rea’iSc revenue of a quar.er of a million annually.