"(I is wonderful the stories you etitt get a man to swallow so long ns you make them impossible enough,” said Mr. Justice Blair, when discussing in the Auckland Supreme Court wlietlrer a witness could possibly have believed a very “tall" story that had been told to him. “I have seen some remarkable stories swallowed,” he said. There were hard-headed business men tlwit you could not deceive about prices, because that was their job, but. if yon told them you know a man who could dig a hole in tlie ground and get gold out of it they would put all their money in it, said his Honour. 'l'lmt was because they knew nothing about it.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 7, 3 October 1941, Page 3
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