During the hearing of the stonemasons’ dispute at the Auckland Arbitration Court,' His Honour, Mr. Justice Frazer, objected to a witness giving evidence as to the effect of dust in lessening the lives of workers. Statistics were the correct method of proving that point. “In any case,” said His Honour, “bow. can this man say whether his companions died as the result of disease caused by their occupation? If I died to-morrow, would it be because I am a Judge of the Arbitration Court? I will admit, though, that it is enough to kill a man sometimes.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 5
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