WHITE ISLAND DISASTER.
/WIDOW'S CLAIM REJECTED. (Per Press Association.) ;'"' \ ". AUCKLAND, last night. Mr Justice Stringer has forwarded tho ' judgment of the Arbitration. Court in a claim for 'compensation brought by the widow of one of the victims of the. White Island disaster 6ri # the 9th or •10th September, 1914. Plaintiff's husband was employed quarrying crude sulphur. The judgment concluded as follows? "All that was definitely known is 4 shat the deceased and all other living, soul* on the island . were engulfed 'or swept away by some great natural disturbance, but as "to when and where or .exactly how deceased met his death 'twere 1 was Absolutely nothing known from which rany legitimate inference could be drawn. "We regret we are forced to the" conehision that plaintiff has beerf wholly unable to satisfy the onus which rests upon her, and she cannot succeed in t«e .action." ■ * '■'■' .-.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13802, 30 September 1915, Page 8
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145WHITE ISLAND DISASTER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13802, 30 September 1915, Page 8
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