LIED TO REGISTRAR
YOUTH GIVES WRONG AGE WANTED TO GET MARRIED Having pleaded guilty to making a falce declaration to the registrar of marriages, George Douglas Campbell, 19, was fined £ls in the Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Justice Smith. For prisoner, Mr. R. A. Singer said that he had told the registrar that he was 24 in order to obtain a certificate to marry a woman considerably older than himself. “The punishment he may be going to suffer in the future may be a sufficient penalty for this false and wicked declaration,” suggested counsel amid laughter. The probation officer had proposed probation, counsel continued. It was, however, an offence meriting neither imprisonment nor the irksomeness of probation, but rather a small fine. He had work to go to at Maunganui. His Honour remarked that a report upon prisoner was not altogether satisfactory. but as he would shortly be employed, a fine would be imposed. Campbell was ordered to pay £ls in three instalments of £ 5 at three, six and nine months from date.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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175LIED TO REGISTRAR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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