“Docs your husband drink?” queried counsel during the hearing of a case for a separation order at the Napier Court on Tuesday. “ No,” answered the witness, “ and he does not smoke.” “ Oh,” said counsel, “ho has some virtues then.” Witness: “I would rather have a man who drank.” “Why?” queried his Worship. Witness: “Because ho would have mow feeling for his wife and family.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 14
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