FALSE DECLARATION.
SOLDIER'S WIFE IN TROUBLE. Auckland, February 26. A young married woman named Ivy McQuillan was charged to-day that in •Juno, 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, .19.15, with the first N.Z. Tunnelling Corps, and who has not returned home. In June, 1917, Mrs McQuillan registered the birth of a girl child to herself on May 28, and stated that her husband was the child's father. Subsequently she admitted that her husband had been away about IS months before the child had been born, and that the child's father was another man, whose name she gave. When ashed why she had given her husband's name, to the registrar as the father of the child, she stated that she thought it was necessary that sho should give her husband's name as father. The accused pleaded guilty, and was committed' to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 3
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175FALSE DECLARATION. Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 3
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