Obliging Policeman
When a letter from a Chinese in the Main Trunk district, written in good, concise English "with the correct legal phraseology’, was read in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, defending counsel hastened to explain that though his client, charged with breaches of the price regulations, had been in business for many years, he had a poor knowledge of English anti did not write the letter himself. “As a matter of fact,” counsel added, “that letter emanated frqm the constable who served him with the summons. It is actually on an old police form, but it shows that the constable was favourably inclined toward defendant.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3298, 9 August 1943, Page 8
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105Obliging Policeman Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3298, 9 August 1943, Page 8
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