OATHS AND PERJURY.
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND. December 5 Apropos of the abolition of kiting th2 Bible in British courts, and the substitution of the Scottish form of oath, it is interesting to notefthat not only arti uanitary consideratio i s all against kissing, the Book, but it is not considered effective as a deterrent to perjury. Mr C. G. Kettle, S.M., at all events, has not found it so. In speaking to a "Herald' reporter, Mr Kettle said [he had for many years been in favour <f substituting the following simple declaration for the oath: "I pomise that I will speak the truth, the < whole truth, and nothing but the truth." His experience was that perjury, of which there was a deplorable amount, was not stopped by the present oath. The man who made up his mind to commit perjury would do so on forty Bibles. £Mr Kettle said he doubted if the oath was anything but a form to the great majority of witnesses.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 6 December 1909, Page 5
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166OATHS AND PERJURY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 6 December 1909, Page 5
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