WANTS TO GET MARRIED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3303, 23 August 1911, Page 9

WANTS TO GET MARRIED.

BUT HER MOTHER OBJECTS. SYMPATHETIC JUDGE SIDES PROSPECTIVE BRIDE. , ISPECIAIi TO TIMES T AUCKLAND, August 22. A novel application was made to Mr. Justice Edwards in Chambers this morning. A young woman of the age of 20, represented by Mr. J. R. Reed, petitioned the Judge, under the Marriage Act of 1/900 or an order declaring that a marriage she desired to enter into with a young man of 21 was proper. The reason of the application was that her mother, a widow,. refused- her consent to the marriage without : alleging any valid reason for doing so. A number of affidavits were filed in sup- ■ port of the petition, the facts sworn to being that the young man was of good character and in receipt of sufficient wages to support a wife. The applicant, with her intended husband, sat at one end of a long table in the Supreme Court where Chamber, matters are taken, and at the other j end she was faced by her mother, who; displayed considerable feeling, and was! backed up in this by a- son and daughter who did not look with eyes of favor; on the proposed union. , J The applicant made allegations of, ill-treatment, one being that her mother had knocked her down on one occasion with a fryingpan. * She alleged that in consequence of general bad treatment she left the home. These allegations were denied by the mother, but slie was unable to give any reason for her refusal of consent to the proposed marriage, except that the young man had no home to take his prospective-wife to. His Honor made the order declaring the proposed marriage to be a proper one, which has the effect of doing away with the necessity of having the mother’s consent. This is the first time in Auckland that any such application has been made.