A FLOW OF WATER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 2, Issue 100, 10 June 1913, Page 3

A FLOW OF WATER.

Difficult To juries.

Ever try to judge how fast a vehicia is going? It is seldom that two people can agree about the pace. The flaw o! water is evidently as difficult for a layman tr determine, judging by the conflicting evMei.ca given in connection with tha Aka Aka well-boring case heard in Pakekoh- Court last we;k. The differences ranged from a gallon a minute to a galba in ftur or five minutes. Touching ths anility of peopla to jud>e these matters without careful tests, the Magistrate eaiJ to one witness: "How long do ycu fupptsa you have been in the witness box'" "Oh, fifteen or ttftnty minutes," was the reply. The Magistrate consulted his open watch before him. "You have been just 6ix minutes," His Worship said. Unless one knows that one is to be subsequently questioned, it i 3 amazingly difficult to jadga t'me, distance, speed, a flow cf water, ar.d such-like. We wender bow many people could give a reasonably near ru-:fs aa to how many yards separate the Pukekohe post office from ihe railway station, by the ordinary footpalh?