JURY'S £1071 AWARD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19333, 25 May 1937, Page 10

JURY'S £lO7l AWARD

MAN’S £1371 CLAIM DAMAGES ASSESSED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Damages totalling £lO7l 13s Gd were awarded to Henry Wenslcv Piper, a retired confectioner, aged 76, in the Supreme Court to-day, for injuries he suffered when ho was knocked over by it motor car in a city street.

Tbe defendant in the notion was Airs. Annie McKenzie, wife of John Robert McKenzie, merchant, of Christchurch.

The accident occurred on March 7, 1036, in Colombo street, near Armagh street, tho car driven by Airs. Ale-. Kenzie eolloding with the plaintiff, who was walking. One of the plaintiff’s logs was broken, and he claimed he was caused much pain and suffering. . The claim for £1250 general damages and £l2l 13s Gd special damages, making a total of £1371 13s Gd, was heard before Air. Justice Xorthcroft and a jury.

The plaintiff alleged that the accident was due to negligence on the part of Airs. McKenzie. Her liability was admitted and the jury was asked to concern itself solely with the amount of general damages. The claim was brought against Mrs. McKenzie's separate estate.

The jury awarded the plaintiff £950 general damages.

fears of a young English mother who was often left alone- with her children amongst, the savages, Mokena Kolierc slept-on the verandah of the missionary’s house. It is said that to protect the pakeiia the. chief would have gone to any length. Alokena Kohere’s photograph, with a paragraph about him, is published in a recent booklet intended i’or use in schools. More could be said about Alokena Ivohere. Maori chiefs who were notable for their rutlilcssness, bloodthirstiness and brutality, have become famous, but Ivohere, the patriot, the diplomat, and the peace-maker, is hardly known. Although the Government of his day fully showed its appreciation of his signal services to tho country by appointing him to the Legislative Council in 1872, later Governments forgot him entirely. Monuments erected oi' subsidised by the Government' are found all over the country, but no Government has thought if worth while to raise a stone over Alokena Ivohere. The one that marks the spot where he now lies was erected by his own children and grandchildren.

It- may be said of Alokena. Ivohere “To his grave he went, unwept-, tin honoured, and unsung.”—Yours, etc..

PITH A-TIKOTI KG,