REGULATIONS UPHELD
COMPENSATION FOR DEATH IN AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT PA WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. The regulations specifying a limit of £SOOO in compensation for the death of a passenger in a New Zealand National Airways " Corporation plane were upheld in the Supreme Court in a judgment delivered to-day by the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary. His Honor ordered the reduction of two claims for £15,000 to the sum of £SOOO provided in the regulations gazetted in 1947. The action, the subject of the judgment, was a motion by the defendant, the National Airways Corporation, to have the claims reduced to £SOOO preliminary to the hearing of the main claims for damages. The plaintiffs were the widows of two victims of the Waikanae air disaster last March.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 9
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