A BROTHER'S DEATH
CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. ,' [by telegraph.— association:] • Dunedin, Wednesday. The Arbitration Court had a compensation case before it to-day, '. in which a ■ claim was made on behalf of two infants in.respect of their" brother, a lad barely 15 years old, who was killed by being thrown from a horse while in the employ of respondent, : a butcher, at Kaitangata. : The parents were both dead, and.the children went to live with their married sister. A pother of the infants, a fisherman at : the Bluff,: barely earned sufficient to support himself. : , Deceased, 'who was 12 years .old when his mother died, worked for a time at the Bluff and Invercargill, and then at Kaitangata, and, it was alleged, sent , his married sister for the,'support of the, children £8 out of £9 13s 6d he had• received. The Court made an order'for the payment of £52, plus funeral expenses, and £7 7s costs. . _~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12929, 27 July 1905, Page 5
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