FALSE DECLARATION OF BIRTH
By Telegraph.—Prees Association. Auckland, February 26., A young married voman. Ivy Jl'Quillan, was charged to-day that in June, 1917, she wilfully made n false declaration to the Registrar of Births in Auckland. Evidence was to the effect that accused was the wife of a man who left New Xeahind at Christmas time, 1915, with the first New Zealand Tunnelling Corps, and who hns not yet returned home. In June. !917, Mrs. M'Quillan registered the birth of a girl child to herself on May 28, and stated that her husband was tho child's father. Subsequently she admitted that her husband had been away about eighteen months before the child had been born, and that (ho child's father wits another man whoso name she gave. When askeo* why she had given her husband's name to the l?e----gistrar as the father of the child, she stated that she thought it was necessary that she should give her husband's name as the father. Accused pleaded, guilty and was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 131, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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175FALSE DECLARATION OF BIRTH Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 131, 27 February 1919, Page 5
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