UNQUENCHABLE THIRST.
PENSION OF £lO 16s A MONTH. A Budapest court has just awarded an estate manager, Ladislaw Almassy, an allowance of £lO 16s a month because ho is afflicted with an " unquenchable " thirst. Almassy has had a constant and expensive thirst since ho was Injured in a motor-cycle accidorjt in which his employer, Dejoe Becker, was killed. As he was a passenger in Beckor's sidecar, Almassy brought an aotion against his employer's heirs, claiming a pension of £lB a month. Almassy told the judgo that ijf he were deprived of costly preventive inodicines, he would bo obliged to drink from to 28 pints a day..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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106UNQUENCHABLE THIRST. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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