COMPENSATION FOR WIDOW
HUSBAND KILLED BY TRAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Judgment for plaintiff for the full amount claimed, with costs, was delivered by Mr. Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court to-day when Elizabeth Ev a Elliot, widow, of Otahuhu, claimed £750 from Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., commission agents, for the death of her husband, Alexander Fulton Elliot. The claim was made under the Workers’ Compensation Act, 1922. Plaintiff claimed that her husband, who was in the employ of the defendant company at the time of his death, was killed by a train at the railway crossing between Penrose and Southdown on August 13, 1926, while returning on a horse provided for his use to the house in which he was required to live and was acting in the course of his employment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 9
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136COMPENSATION FOR WIDOW Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 9
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