MINER’S DEATH
WIDOW’S CLAIM SUCCEEDS
(Per Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, May 1G
At the Arbitration Court, Mary Francis, widow of a miner, claimed £750 as compensation from the Linton Coal Coy., on account of the death of her husband, who was suffocated by gas while working in the mine. Te defence denied that the deceased was killed in the course of his employment. The regulations provide that no workman shall be in any part of the mine other than in the part where he is working. The Court held it was reasonable to infer that lie went for a necessary purpose, and was not. guilty of misconduct in taking the route he did. A verdict, was given for the full amount claimed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1927, Page 12
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