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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 12

Knocked down by a motor truck at Lower Hutt on May 2, 1933, Arthur Harrison, a clerk, brought an action in the Supreme Court to recover £1,086 4s damages from William Copping and Purvis Robert Sisson, the owner and driver respectively of the vehicle. He was awarded £62 10s special and £l5O general damages. Mr Justice Reed said that it seemed to him that the only explanation of the accident was that the driver of the truck must have cut the corner. He had made a lot of money and on the strength of it took a castle in Scotland. On the first evening the butler asked him; “Would you care to have the pipers at dinner, sir?'” “ No, thanks,” he answered; “but you can put them in the lounge and I'll read them later.”-