Witness Must Remove Glove.
A person cannot be sworn to give evidence with gloves on, and the attention of the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth was drawn to this. A woman witness had just taken the Bible in her right hand when the clerk asked her to remove her glove. Could she not hold the Bible in her ungloved left hand, interjected counsel. Custom necessitated the use of the right hand, replied the magistrate.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 4
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74Witness Must Remove Glove. Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 4
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