FALSE DECLARATION.
SOLDIER’S WIFE IN TROUBLE,
REGISTERS CHILD THAT IS NOT HER HUSBAND’S. Auckland, Feb. 20. 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 Christmas time in 1915, with the First New Zealand Tunnelling Corps, and who had not yet returned home, in June, 1917, Airs McQuillan registered the birth of a girl child to herself on May 28tli, and slated (bat her husband was (he child’s father. Subsequently she admitted that her husband had been away about eighteen months before? tho child had been born, and that (he child’s fa (her was another man, whose name she gave. When asked why she had given her husband’s name to the Registrar as the father of tho child,, she slated that she thought it was necessary that she should give her husband’s name as Hie child’s father. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed lu the Supreme Court for sent once.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1945, 27 February 1919, Page 3
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188FALSE DECLARATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1945, 27 February 1919, Page 3
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