FALSE DECLARATION.
> (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A young married woman. Ivy McQuillan, was charged to-day that m June, 1917, she wilfully made a false declara! tion to the Registrar of Births m Auckland, Evidence was given to tlio effect that the accused was thc .wife of a man who i left New Zealand: at Christmas time. ! 1915, with the first New Zealand Tun-, i welling. Corps, and who has not- yet rej turned home. In June. 1917, Mrs Mc- ! Qnillau registered the birth of a girl child to herself on May 28, and stated that her husband was the child's father. Subsequently she admitted that her husband had been away about 18 .months before- the child had> been born and that the child's father was another man. ■ whose name she gave. t When asked why she had given her j husbanid's name to the Registrar as the father of the child, she stated she thought it was necessary that she should give lier • husband's name as father. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court foi- sen-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14848, 27 February 1919, Page 2
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181FALSE DECLARATION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14848, 27 February 1919, Page 2
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