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Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 6

As evidence proving the identification of a person, a photograph was held by Ids Honour Mr Justice Hosking at the Auckland Divorce Court to be insufficient. In the petition before the Court V photograph of the respondent, show"ng him in his shirt-sleeves iri a hairlTesser' s shop, was handed to the Judge \s part of the evidence to prove that the person in the picture was the particular man on whom the citation papers had been served. His Honour said it was an impoverished proof of identity. In England it had been laid down that such evidence was inadmissible. The oroper method wa s for the person serv:ng the citation papers to find someone >vno ikoiew the person to be served, and for each of them to make an affidavit^