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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 December 1927, Page 4

I “There. is not an hotelkeeper in New Zealand who could not be convicted every week under the present licensing laws,’’ sajd a Dunedin licensee during a chat with an “Otago Times” reporter. “Wo are hemmed in with so many regulations and limits that in practice it becomes impossible to avoid breaking the law. I must say. however, .that the police read the law relating to hotels generously,. and I have always found that they are prepared to give a square deal to the man. who is trying to niav the game. If the regulations were interpreted strictly and to' the last letter, conditions would be intolerable for us.” He added that hotelkeepers throughout the oountrv had been passing through a lean period in 1927. At the present time, if licensees were ho'ding their own and making ends meet they were doing well.

A Zulu woman may not call her husband by his name, either _ when addressing him or when speaking of him to others. She must use the phrase “father of So-and-so.”