DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1928, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

JERSEY BREEDER. DEAD. {By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. Obituary.—'Uilghman S. Cooper, a prominent Jersey breeder of Coopersberg, Pennsylvania, United States, in Wellington this morning after three weeks illness, aged 79. Cooper is one of-the greatest Jersey breeders in the world and recently brought to New Zealand a selected shipment of Jerseys. MAN’S WORKING LIFE. QUESTION FOR ARBITRATION COURT. AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. “We have always hesitated to attempt to fix the duration of a man’s working life. I don’t know that we have any authority to do so except in eases where a. man before an accident has been suffering from a disease and the medical evidence is that his life will be only two or three years.”

This observation was made in the Arbitration Court by Mr Justice Frazer in apportioning compensation in a case that concerned a labourer who was 68 years of age. It was suggested that the man had little work in front of him even if he were in normal health. In cases such as he had illustrated,, said his Honour, the Court could always say that the duration of a man’s working life would be tliree years and at the end of that time he would he worse olf. The suggestion that plaintiff in the present action had reached the end of his working days recalled to mind the ease'of a wharf labourer in Wellington who toiled till he was 96. He was of unusual extraction, bis parents being Irish on one side and Dutch Boer on the other and that possibly accounted for his physical ability at such an advanced age. In any case, there were men at ninety doing work that one would imagine would be well beyond their years.

AN ACQUITTAL. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 28. Stanley. Roy Montgomerie, who was arrested in Auckland,’ was found not guilty by Justices on a charge of obtaining: £225 from James Cameron' by falsely representing that he Owned and had authority to sell the Dominion Billiard Saloon at New Plymouth. BOOKMAKER FINED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. Ralph E. Thompson pleaded guilty to carrying on business as a bookmaker, and was fined £SO and costs. The police evidence was that lie was doing a big trade and had £214 on him when arrested. STABBING AFFRAY. ‘..GORE, Sept. 29. As sequel to a heated argument at Mataura Freezing Works yesterday ■ afternoon, a youth, William Heyward, is alleged to have attacked another youth, Peter Dorc, both of Matuara, with a butcher’s knife. Dore received a severe wound in the thigh, but is progressing favourably at Gore Hospital.'