FALSE WITNESS.
IRREGULAR ENROLMENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 18. _ , Francis Arthur Bate was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court on two charges ‘of breach of the Legislature Act, in that he had witnessed signatures of application for enrolment without seeing the applicant sign or hearing a person declare that signature was his own. ■ ■ Tho evidence disclosed that a wife had signed her husband’s name to an application, and that another woman had signed her mother’s name, in her mother’s absence, to a form. Both of these irregular signatures Bate had witnessed. He was fined £lO on each charge. •
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 December 1925, Page 9
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98FALSE WITNESS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 December 1925, Page 9
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