"NAME HIM GEORGE."
The Stipendiary Magistrate at Christ church has a peculiar sense of tho fnhess of /things. The .unhappy little offspring of a mental defective came 'joIforo tile Court last Monday, and was committed to a Receiving Home I'What shall -wo call him?" asked the Magistrate. It suddenly dawne'd uj. on 4the Siilb-Insipecfcor of Police'that it was King's Birthday, and he suggested that the child should he christened ,' 'George." The Magistrate considered the name an 'excellent -one,' and ! the clrilld was named accordingly. Tho Stipendiary Magistrate who could perpetrate such a-joke at the expense or Bfis Majesty should not be forgotte i in the Birthday honours. . ■ ■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10654, 8 June 1912, Page 4
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107"NAME HIM GEORGE." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10654, 8 June 1912, Page 4
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