HATLESS WOMEN IN COURT
Warning Given By Judge
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 4.
Women who enter the witness box must wear head covering, Mr Justice Boys said when hearing undefended divorce petitions in the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday. A hatless female petitioner had just given evidence.
His Honour’s remarks were heard by two other hatless women, a petitioner and her supporting witness, who were perturbed. There was an adjournment, and the women looked at the other women, all wearing hats and and looking confident. Then they saw a small black hat on the head of a woman who had been an early witness. They were sorry to worry her, but would she mind lending it? Not at all was the answer.
The petitioner, wearing the borrowed hat, gave her evidence and returned to the back of the Court, where the hat hastily changed heads again. Outside the Court a few minutes later the hat was returned to its owner with grateful thanks.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29071, 7 December 1959, Page 10
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