A TROOPER'S WILL
QUESTION OF PROOF OF DEATH. (IT mgORAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, 21st June. At the Supreme Court in Chambers to-day a motion for probate in the will of Malcolm Hugh Campbell, a trooper who had died on a troopship leaving New Zealand, came before Mr, Justice Cooper. His Honour stated that h© had no proof of death— all the proof before him was a signed statement by a military officer stating that the trooper had died at sea. "How could this officer know whether the man had died or not?" His Honour added he had already suggested that the Judges should hold a conference and determine what proof of death was necessary The matter was important, as they could expect a good many deaths of New Zealanders while the war lasted. It was essential that they should have absolute proof of death. % His Honour adjourned the motion until proof of death had been supplied.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 6
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156A TROOPER'S WILL Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 6
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