ILLUSION BROKEN.
"Father Christmas" as Invention
Of Parents.
FRENCH PROFESSOR SUED
(Received 1 p.m.).
PARIS,. December 28.
The French Courts will shortly.have to estimate the legal value of an illusion, as the result of an action which is being taken by a fath'er against a professor for informing his eight-year-old son that "Father Christinas" was an invention, and that his parents placed presents in his stocking.- J .
The 'father is claiming £80 as moral damages on the ground that he desired his son: to continue to hold the illusion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 307, 29 December 1930, Page 7
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