GIRL IN QUANDARY.
REGISTERED AS A BOY. A strange position has occurred in Hobart with regard to registration of the birth of Maida Jean Eaton, which has only been discovered after a lapse of 22 years. Miss Eaton required her birth certificate to enable her to apply for a professional position. On going to the department concerned she found that the nurse had registered her as a male and given her her father's Christian names, Thomas Arthur.
The State Act provides that no correction can be made of error after two years, and how the matter can be rectified is puzzling the minds of the authorities.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20923, 13 July 1931, Page 11
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106GIRL IN QUANDARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20923, 13 July 1931, Page 11
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