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WOMAN AS ADVOCATE

APPEARS FOR HUSBAND AN ADVERSE JUDGMENT [IJY TELEGRAPH —FRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday The. first woman "counsel" to appear in the New Plymouth Court defended a civil claim to-day on behalf of her husband, Abraham Wnllv Mahomed Salaman, an Indian herbalist. Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., agreed to waive certain technicalities, because ho said Snlaman himself either did not understand, or pretended not to understand, questions. The claim was made by a firm of solicitors for legal costs, amounting to £l3 2s (id. Though the wife of defendant capably cross-examined witnesses, she was not successful, judgment going against her husband.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 12

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WOMAN AS ADVOCATE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 12

WOMAN AS ADVOCATE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 12