“I think that if your Worship spent some time in that country you would change your opinion,” remarked counsel in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth, when Mr A. W. Mowlein, S.M., expressed doubt as to the existence of a state of morality in the Mokau district that did not regard the taking of a neighbour’s whisky as theft. “All I can say, then, is that it is indicative of a very low state of morality on the part of the residents,” retoined the mag is*, trate.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3594, 30 January 1923, Page 27
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