_The Evening Post_, 20 Feb 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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When the new jury was being sworn in at the Supreme Court yesterday there was the usual batch of jurors desiring exemption. The grounds advanced wore varied to a degree.…  “Very well,” said his Honour, Mr. Justice Chapman, “you are excused. I remember a dyer who came down here and left some ladies’ dresses too long in the dye, with most peculiar results.” …
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230220.2.59
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