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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 4

AM for £2 10s. —The Arab temperament was illustrated by a story which Dr. \V. D. Bathgate, of ilie Edinburgh Medical Mission Hospital, Nazareth, told at a lecture in Invercargill. Arabs were often admitted to the hospital suffering from knife or bullet wounds and he would ask if a brother or cousin had done it. “Invariably we tlnd that a relative has been responsible and the trouble has arisen over such a trivial thing as a packet of cigarettes. Just recently a youth wanted to get a driving licence which costs £‘2 iOs. Ills father refused him the money and the young man became so abusive that his father sent for the police. The son threatened to shoot if the police did come and he carried out his threat, but. he. missed the police and shot, his brother and his cousin,” said Dr. Bathgate*