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Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2607, 8 April 1926, Page 8

Doctors, arc notorious for the illegibility of their handwriting ,and an example came up in the Wellington Magistrate ’s ’ Court last week. Mr C. B. Orr Walker, S.M. (picking up a doctor’s certificate): “I am afraid I will have to send for the doctor to give evidence. I can’t read his(writing.” Counsel said his client was unable to come to court on account of illness, which was explained in the certificate. “Oh, I see,” said the Magistrate, reading the slip of paper once again. “Yes, I think I can make that out.”