MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO PERJURY
Derek Henry Read, aged 29, a farmer, of Ashburton, pleaded guilty in. the Supreme Court yesterday to a charge of committing perjury. Mr Justice McGregor remanded Read for sentence. Mr A. W. Brown appeared for the Crown, and Mr R. W. Edgley for Read. The charge to which Read pleaded guilty was that on March 27 in a petition for divorce from his wife, Margaret Isobel Hickman Read, he committed perjury by swearing, before P. H. T. Alpers,' a solicitor of the Supreme Court, in an affidavit, that the co-respondent R. Nicolls was a complete stranger to him where as in truth and fact he was known to him and was his agent.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27208, 27 November 1953, Page 7
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