FALSE MARRIAGE DECLARATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4462, 7 June 1930, Page 4

FALSE MARRIAGE DECLARATION.

YOUTH OF 17 MAh’,K,IBS HIRE OF 15. TIIE SORRY SEQUEL. Gisborne, June 5. Six weeks ago a girl aged 15 years and 10 months was missing from her home near (jisborne and Hie imliee were informed. ft was subsequently ascertained that she. had secretly married a youth aged 17 and two months and (lie ample had left on their honeymoon to Sydney. Arriving there they were soon in bnancial difli'eulties and fares had to be sent, by the parents to bring them back. The sequel came in the Magistrate's (Court, to-day before Mr. Harper, S.M., when the youth, " hose name was ordered to be suppressed, was charged with a false declaration on a marriage certificate wherein he gave his age as 22 and the girl’s age as 21. Amongst the witnesses was the girl’s father who gave evidence that accused had objected to witness’s daughter being a. waitress and said he would have to marry the girl and take he) 1 out of it. When told by (lie girl-’s grand-, mother that lie would have to wait till the giil was 21 years, accused said he was afraid he could not do so. Witness had told accused he would not allow his daughter to be married till she was 21 years of age. In cross-examination witness admitted his daughter had told him that accused and herself had never lived as man and wife and witness admitted that the boy had done no harm to the girl. Accused pleaded guilty was committed to the Supreme Court where he was admitted to one year’s probation.