Genuine Error
JT is traditionally recognized that mothers-in-law are necessary evils. Yet poor ma-by-marriage sometimes suffers an injustice. A defendant m the Auckland Magistrate's\ Court the other day was one of three sons w^hom tho mother had sued for support.
Speaking, m evidence, of his mother, defendant referred to an occasion, when, as a conductor on the city trams, he had been accosted by his mother, who made no bones about her opinion of him.
After the outburst, a sympathetic passenger addressed the dumbfounded ticket-puncher: "Your mother-in-law, I presume?"-
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NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 7
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89Genuine Error NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 7
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