When I read a report of a statement of his in connection with the Mount Victoria murder I was profoundly shocked and reluctantly came to the conclusion that he should take a course in psychology: for he said, in effect, that he had talked to the accused during the trial and could see that the accused was not in any way mentally unbalanced. Now for a professional psychoanalyst to say that would be merely ridiculous, such a statement only being possible after psychoanalysis, this being out of the question when patient and doctor are separated by a court-room. and, on top of that, when the patient is under the stress of being tried for murder. It is, therefore, impossible for a layman to deliver forth in a dogmatic manner upon such matters.

This ignorance. I very much fear, is widespread throughout the world. New Zealand not excepted. And it is men and women who have not risen from this ignorance who are agitating for the return of the death penalty. Let me try to enlighten them.'