SURPRISE FOR BRIDE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22022, 3 August 1933, Page 11

SURPRISE FOR BRIDE

OFFICIALLY “ DEAD PERSON.” When Miss Pia Cavalazzi, aged 22, applied to the local registrar at Ravenna, Italy, for documents which the Italian law demands belore marriage banns can be put tip, she was met with the astounding statement that she had no place in the world as a living person because she had been registered as stillborn by her own father. The mystery was accounted for when her parents remembered that she appeared lifeless at birth, and the doctor had issued a certificate to that effect. Careful treatment, however, brought signs of life in the newborn child, who was soon a healthy baby. ■ Rnt the father, overjoyed at bis little daughter's recovery, forgot to cancel the first certificate at the registrar’s, and now she has had to postpone her wedding until she can produce witnesses to testify that she is the same person as the small baby whose life was not saved until 24 hours after her death had been registered. As the ease must go through the Civil Tribunal of Ravenna, the girl will have to wait several months before getting her birth certificate.