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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1939, Page 7

A medical witness was being tested in the Supreme Court at Auckland on his observation of the mental capacity of a patient who had been under his care, and in whom he had not noticed, he said, any sign of weakening mentality. "Do you think.” asked counsel of the first witness, "that if the patient answered questions as to the income tax returns incorrectly that would indicate mental incapacity?” The doctor, gave it as his view that such a failure did not necessarily mean that the patient was weakminded. "It would. I think, be an indication that his mental capacity y/aa very high if he correctly answered the questions in his income tax lUrms,” he added. The Court laughed.