FILM SHOWN TO JURY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22345, 8 March 1938, Page 11

FILM SHOWN TO JURY

SLOW-MOTION PICTURES USED CLAIM FOR DAMAGES AT NAPIER (rHE3S ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) . HASTINGS, March 7. "You are the first jury in a British Dominion, as far as I know, who have had the honour of having evidence shown in this way. You may be making history,' 1 said Mr Justice Blair at the conclusion of to-day's sitting of the Supreme Court at Napier when asking the jury to attend pictures last evening of the working, of a saw in a timber mill case heard in the Court. The claim was for damages amounting to £2070 ss, arising from an accident in which George Moorcock sawmill worker, of Tikokino, had all the fingers and the thumb of his right hand amputated by a circular saw. The accident occurred at Kereru on June 2 last year at a sawmill owned by Carl Hansen, of Kereru, the defendant. A full-sized model of a saw occupied a prominent position on the floor of the Court, and as the witnesses were called some were asked to demonstrate the different operating processes. This model was prepared by the defence, as was the motion picture of a saw. The picture, which was shown to the jury in slow moton, occupied several minutes and gave a detailed dercription of the operation of the saw and of the work done by the man attending it. The case will continue to-morrow. ,