“NINETEEN BOB”
COMEDY IN COURT BL-UE PAPER SHOULD BE READ c/ From, Our Own Correspondent TAUMARUNUI, Thursday. A delightful little comedy was staged at. the Magistrate’s Court this morning. A debtor, who had not given notice of his intention to defend, stepped forward and exclaimed that the amount •sued for was “only nineteen bob.’’ The magistrate, Mr. R. Watson, somewhat sharply: You mean nineteen shillings! Tho witness agreed, and there was a good laugh in the court. The magistrate asked the defendant if he had read the summons, and he replied that he had only noticed that the claim was for 19s. Further questioned as to whether he had read the instructions on the other side of the summons, the defendant said, "No, I did not.” "Well,” replied Mr. Watson, “when anyone receives a highly-coloured piece of paper like the summons they should read both sides of it.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 10
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