TWELVE MONTHS FOR BIGAMY
Wellington, This Day. A sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court on Wallace Shing, aged 41. whose action in going through a form of marriage with a woman the same day that his wife asked him to return to her was described by the Judge as a deliberate and wilful flouting of the marriage laws. The prisoner had pleaded guilty at Palmerston North yesterday.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 2
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79TWELVE MONTHS FOR BIGAMY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 2
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