The psychological moment is often an unguarded one (remarks the King Country Chronicle). Counsel had been examining a Native female witness at length in the Magistrate’s Court, per medium of an interpreter. Just as the case was concluded, and the witness was leaving the box, counsel addressed a final question: “By the way, can you speak English?” “Kauri” (“No”), was the reply in the Native tongue, amidst laughter. This is the age of the petrol spark, A hundred miles is the merest lark; Whizzing along in the dizziest way; Mere ancient history, the bullock dray! Ancient history that cold, monsieur, Conquered with Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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Southland Times, Issue 20219, 2 July 1927, Page 4
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106Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Southland Times, Issue 20219, 2 July 1927, Page 4
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