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CURRENT TOPICS. PERMISSION TO MARRY. During the sitting of the Royal Commission on Divorce in London ,the question of preventing the unfit from mating was discussed by experts. Mr. Montague Oackenthorpe, K.C., president of the Eugenic Society, urged that if right selection were not'made by contracting parties before marriage the vows of love and fidelity exchanged at the altar might, and probably would, turn out to be a modkery. He condemned the system of sacrificing a young daughter for the socalled advantage of securing for her a "good match." His proposal was that a license of marriage should not be granted to contracting parties except upon some prima facie case that they were free from any transmissible defect" which would be prejudicial to the children 01 such a union. He held it was monstrously unfair tliat a healthy, and perhaps young, woman should be condemned—it might be for life—to involuntary celibacy for hav-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 219, 24 December 1910, Page 4
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180Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 219, 24 December 1910, Page 4
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