A FALSE DECLARATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11765, 27 February 1919, Page 5

A FALSE DECLARATION.

Per Press Association, Auckland, February 26. A young married woman .named Ivy McQuillan, was charged to-day that in June, 1917, she wilfully made "a -false declaration to the Registrar of Births in Auckland. The evidence was to, the effect that the accused was the wife of a man who left ;New Zealand at Xmas time, 1915, with the first N.Z. Tunnelling Corps, and who has not returned home. la June, 19i7, Mrs McQuillan registered the birth of a girl child to herself on May 28th, and stated that her husband was the child’s father. Subsequently she admitted that her husband had been away abont 18 months before the child had been born, and that the child’s father -was another man, whose name she gave. When asked why she had given her husband’s name on the Registrar as the father of the child, she stated that she thought it was necessary that she should give her husband’s .name as father. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.