QUAKE SHOCK
WOMAN’S CLAIM FAILS. [PIB PBIBB ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. June 27. Tho question of whether the Hawke’s Bay earthquake on February 3, 1931, was responsible for the subsequent mental derangement of a Avoman Avho Avas employed at the Napier Hospital Avhen part of the building Avas shaken doAvn, Avas the basis of a claim for compensation by her from the HaAvke’s Bay Hospital Board in the Arbitration Court at Wellington to-day. Mr Justice ' Blair presided, and Avith him were Mr W. Cecil Prime and Mr A. L. Monteith. An allied point Avas Avhether, if the earthquake did in fact bring on her mental instability, such injury actually arose out of the plaintiff’s Avork, or. Avhether she Avould haA r e received mental damage if she had been off duty at the time. After evidence for the plaintiff had been heard, she Avas non-suited, the Court holding that she had not suffered an injury arising directly out of her employment. At tho suggestion of counsel, His Honor requested that the plaintiff’s name be not made.public in view of the fact that she had been au inmate of Porirua Mental Hospital. I
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1934, Page 14
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