"Where is the Whau?" asked Sir John Findlay during the course of his opening address in the Hall Skelton v: Seabrook and Farrell libel action at the Supreme Court this morning. While several offered explanation that it meant a certain mental" institution, the well filled Court room was pervaded by wide grins.
"These motor-bikes that race through the streets at night would wake the dead," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning. "If these machines can't be silenced, they ought to be dropped in the harbour," he concluded.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 July 1926, Page 9
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