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NZ Truth, Issue 66, 22 September 1906, Page 5

A "strapping" woman— the schoolmistress. The ambigous terms used by the police, a Jesuitical manner of saying one thing and implying another has often been commented upon and always gives one the impression that a policeman on oath or not cannot express himself straight-forwardly. Magistrate Widdowson, at Dunedin, one day last week. had. as Chairman of the Licensing Committee m one of the reports on hotels placed before him, a statement which declared one house as being "fairly well conducted." The boss policeman present was asked what inell it all meant, and said that although there were some suspicious circumstances m the conduct of the house, there was np real evidence that a breach of the law had been committed. It simply amounts to suspicion. Just a policeman's thought, that's all ! which was not warniated Jw evidence^