“A law should: be brought in by tliq Government to regulate sol iciiovs’ charges,” declared Mr G. Pulley, u-iring the course of his address at River.tqp; (reports the “Southland Tinies”). He went on to quote an instance of a man wbo, instructed a solicitor to recover the sum of £216, deatn duties on the value of property bequeathed io him by his mother. “Do you know how much it cost him in solicitor’s fees Mr Pulley inquired of the audiienpe, and then, turning to the chairman.: “Would you like to have a guess ?” But the, chairmans a member of the legal profession, cqncerning the charges of which amusing reference had been made by the candidate earlier in the evening, could not hazard a guess, whereupon Mr Pulley concluded: “Well, £4O, and 1 reckon it was too much.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5351, 14 November 1928, Page 3
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