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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 April 1925, Page 5

Questioned in Auckland.' Mr. J. TV. Po-v niton, S.M.. estimated that onethdrd of those who testify in. courts of law do not teM the truth. That “somebody is lying” i.s a fact that is apparent in many oases, both in the Supreme and! Magistrate's C2e\ii*te. The conflict of evidence is sometimes so grave that learned judges find it- necesf»ary to themselves question witnesses most carefully and to comment sternly on what they realise is false. “Lying has always been the bane ol the courts.” said Mr. Poynton. “Five hundred years ago punishment for it waAj baring the tongue with a red-hot iron. There was just about as much perjurv in those days as there is now.’ Mr. Poynton expressed the opinion thait nine-tenths of the perjury committed in the court was done by friends of the accused persons as a. means to getting the latter out. of their predicaments. There was little perjury that actually injured other people, and that was .a great danger of the offence. In this way justice was defeated. Fortunately, however, judges and magis trates were so used to lying witnesses that they could “see through” them at once—so much, so that false statements ENJOY LIFE WITH “STEVENS.” Keep young when you are young; feel young when you are old. Take an occasional glass of Stevens’ Health Salt. Kills you with renewed vigour and health.' Each bottle of. Stevens contains 04 doses. Get. a supply now. 2/G all chemists and stores. —o NEED BE NO FEAR. People who have once used Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy always keep a bottle in the house. Jt is the most successful remedy in the world for the relief of pains in the stomach, colic, diarrhoea and dvsen tery. There need be no fear of stopping diarrhoea too suddenly if Chain berlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is taken. This preparation stops diar- , rlioea by relieving the disease that , causes it. At all chemists and stores. —Advt.