“I understand there are certain bad habits in which counsel like to indulge. We are now halfway through the afternoon, and propose to take an interval of 10 minutes so that you may indulge.” remarked Mr Barton, SAL, at the Napier Harbour Board Commission the other afternoon (says the Telegraph), in ordering a mid-afternoon adjournment to ali those connected with the commission to have a smoke.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 31
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