CORONERS’ INQUIRIES.
ASSISTANCE RY EXPERTS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. The needs of the changing times have caused one or two important additions to be made to the procedure governing the Coroner’s Court which, it is considered, will he the means of bringing before the Court expert testimony to help in sifting the_ circumstances of fatalities in which high technical information would be an advantage. The Minister of Justice (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) to-day said the recent arrangement would make available at the Coroner’s Court officers of the Royal Air Force to give exjiert advice or assistance to coroners in connection with flying fatalities. A few weeks ago an arrangement was concluded with the Federated Tramping Clubs, the advice of whose expert climbers would be given to assist in coroners’ inquiries into mountaineering fatalities. Just recently also, the Minister said, a further advantage had been arranged by which expert officers from the Public Works and Inspection of Machinery Departments would l>e available to assist coroners in their inquiries into deaths resulting from electrocution.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 224, 21 August 1935, Page 8
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174CORONERS’ INQUIRIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 224, 21 August 1935, Page 8
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