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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 10

Usually when children appear in Court to give evidence in criminal cases, they are exceedingly timid, and counsel has a difficult task in endeavouring to get their version of the story correctly and lucidly. In the Auckland supreme Court the other day, however, three little girls from Avondale made excellent witnesses, giving their statements smartly, and with perfect diction (relates the “Star”). There was no need for the judge, jury, or counsel to strain their ears to catch the words, for every sentence resounded through the silent courtroom with remarkable sharpness. When the mother of the youngest child, who was only eight and a-half years old, stepped into the witness-box to give corroborative evidence, Mr. Justice Ostler said that perhaps she would be pleased to know that her daughter, for her years, had given the most intelligent evidence had avw baud in Court.