BIRTH REGISTRATION
MAGISTRATE’S STRONG PROTEST (Per Press Association.) GISBORNE, September 9. A scat king comment on a certain section of the Births Registration Act was passed by Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., this morning, when the birth certificate of an illegitimate child was submitted during the hearing of a maintenance action. “It js most' improper, and a shocking thing that the certificate should have the word ‘illegitimate’ written across it,” he said. “Why should a child be branded for life? One would think we were living in the dark ages. If that is a provision of the Act, it is high time it was amended.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 September 1927, Page 7
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