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A Frequent Complaint

A 'growing number of the witnesses in our courts seem to follow the evil example of the unscrupulous cavalier in -L' Estrange' s fable, > who " committed perjury ' like-- a gjentleman '—that is, in a free" and" nonchalant and 'brazen way. -Invbhe Auckland Magistrate's Court last week, Mr. .Kettle, >S.M., said : ' There is so much perjury and false swearing in this Court, that it is difficult for any magistrate to get at the truth.' We have been hearing this complaint— thds evidence of moral dry-rot— with painful frequency during recent years.

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 22

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A Frequent Complaint New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 22

A Frequent Complaint New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 22

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