DEATH OF GIRL.
COMPENSATION AWARDED.. CLAIM BY FATHER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Friday. The monetary compensation to which a father was entitled through the death of his 16-year-old daughter as the result of. a highway accident was a question which a jury was asked to decide in the Supreme Court to-day, when Andrew Frederick Campbell claimed £1456 .from William Richard Paul/who, while on a motor cycle, ran down and killed Irene Merle Campbell.* Campbell, a dairy farmer, said his daughter had helped him, and to replace her since her death had cost him £3 a week. Campbell had expected to have his daughter's services for at least 14*-years, but he admitted under crossexamination .that she might have been mar-ried before she was 30. Counsel for the defence stated that deceased was an attractive girl, who would have made an ideal tarmer's wife. Many girls in New Zealand were married at the age of 19 years. The jury awarded £260. r
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 16
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