AN UNSUCCESSFUL CLAIM
MAN FATALLY BURNED WIDOW SEEKS COMPENSATION. (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, October 10. A man named Lawrence Vincent Payne was fatally burned some months qgo, and to-day the widow unsuccessfully claimed £Bl7 compensation Vin the Arbitration Court from the Sash and Door Company. Payne was working with a tractor at the mill, and he spilled oil on his clothes. He washed them with benzine and put them on again. When he struck a match to light o cigarette his clothes ignited. Payne jumped into a water race, but was so severely burned that he died in hospital. Mr Justice Frazer held that the accident was caused through striking a match for his own purposes, and was not in the course of his employment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21772, 11 October 1932, Page 10
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