WOODHOUSE REPORT
Promise By Labour (N.Z. Preu Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. ». The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Kirk) yesterday promised that if Labour were elected immediate action would be taken to draft legislation implementing most of the recommendations of the Woodhouse Report on personal injury. He described the report as "humanitarian, imaginative and far-sighted." The only reservations the Labour Party held were towards some aspects of financing the proposals and to the abolition of all common law rights. "Before change is made in traditional legal concepts and common law rights, interested parties should be given i proper opportunity to maki submissions," he said.
Show Award OmltteiL—D. and M. Stowell gained the Soundness challenge trophy tor the moit points in the Romney sheep section at the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s ninetyfirst show recently. In the list of show trophy awards supplied by the association to “The Press” and printed yesterday, Messrs Stowell’s awatd was omitted,
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32142, 11 November 1969, Page 11
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