INSERTED OWN DEATH NOTICE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21246, 18 August 1934, Page 23

INSERTED OWN DEATH NOTICE

A YOUNG MAN CHARGE* OHHSS3 ASSOUIATIOK TBIXQBAH.) AUCKLAND. August VI. It is an offence punishable by fine or imprisonment to insert a false death notice in a newspaper. This was made clear by the magistrate (Mr W. R. McKean) to-day to a young man who inserted his own death notice. The police said the notice was published in a newspaper and the defendant's father complained to the police, who eventually obtained an admission from defendant that he was responsible. Counsel said the young man had been studying hard and suffering from mental stress. His young lady had transferred her affections to another, and it was possibly with a vague notion of stirring her sympathy that he foolishly caused a notice of his death to be published. The magistrate, after drawing attention to the substantial penalty involved, said the defendant was old enough to know that there were plenty of other girls in the world. If it had been somebody else's death notice that defendant had published he (the magistrate) would have taken a more serious view. He supposed defendant imagined that his action would cause some distress to the girl in the case. Counsel: I don't think he succeeded. She went to a ball the night the notice appeared. The magistrate, after admonishing the defendant, adjourned the case for six months. YOUTH'S DILEMMA DECISION IN APPRENTICESHIP APPEAL (FKESa ASSOCIATION TELEVOAU.) WELLINGTON, August 17. The dilemma of a youth who, after s«veral years' effort, has succeeded in getting employment at a suitable trade and yet cannot obtain the registration of apprenticeship necessary for him to continue in work, is the subject of a written judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Blair in the Court of-Arbitra-tion. John Macpherson, of Hastings, registered both as a plumber and as an electrical wireman, appealed against the refusal of the district registrar of apprentices at Napier to register a contract of apprenticeship between him and Patterson Booth Ebbett, aged 19 years. His Honour upheld the registrar's decision, notwithstanding that it will have the effect of putting the youth out of work again.

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