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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5606, 1 May 1919, Page 2

*' When you were in court at Auckland the magistrate said you were not a tit person to look after your child," said a defendant to his wife during the hearing of a maintenance case in the Wellington Magistrate's Court recently. "He said nothing of tho sort," replied the witness. " Well, he said you should not have dirty hands in court." The witness denied that her hands were unclean. It has been suggested that tho Auckland magistrate was referring to the old law in equity wherein it is stated that a person should not go into a court unless hit. hands are clean, and was not referring to the witness's personal appearance. ■ ' =