ALIENS BY MARRIAGE.
POSITION OF BRITISH WOMEN. ASStME HUSBAND'S NATIONALITY. »y Telegraph.—Press Association Wellington, Last Night. In the House of Representatives this evening, the Hon. J. G. Anderson moved the second reading of the Registration of Aliens Amendment Bill, which provided for registration of women who became aliens by marriage, and to remedy other defects which had been found in the working of the Act of 1917. The Government did not desire to continue this class of war legislation a day longer than was necessary, but we' did not want to encourage the same class of immigration as we formerly did, and until things became normal it must be continued. Mr. Sidey protested against alien children of fifteen years being compelled to register The Minister said he would consider the point.' Messrs Eraser and Holland denounced the proposal to make alien British wo-' men who followed a natural instinct and maried the man they loved, just because he was born in a country different to hers. It was recognition of a principle abhorrent to modern thought that a man possessed property in women. Mr. McCombs said the Bill was illogical, because, while it penalised women who married aliens, it did not so penalise men who married alien women. Women's societies throughout the world resented this prir/iTple, and had appealed to the League of Nations to have this disability in regard to their sex removed. Mr. Parry said he was opposed to the cowardly contents of the Bill, whlEh he characterised las Ithq fungus of antiquity." Mr. Wright cifitended, that the Bill was necessary, because we must counter the scientific spy system established by Germany. Mr. Veitch said the Bill only affirmed the principle that the nationality of a family followed the head of the family. Mr. Sullivan said the Bill was an insult to the women of the Dominion.
Messrs Atmore, Brown, McNicol, and Isitt supported the Bill, and Messrs Bartram and Isitt opposed the measure, which was jread a second time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1920, Page 5
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332ALIENS BY MARRIAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1920, Page 5
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