COMPENSATION CASE
MASTER MARINER’S WIDOW AWARDED £5OO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, February 21. In. the Arbitration Court, Florence Gertrude T.eafberg, widow, claimed £5OO compensation for tlw death of her, husband, John Leafberg, master of the scow Kahn. The. question was one of the owner’s liability under the Workers’ Compensation Act. Mr. Justice Frazer said deceased was substantially employed to do certain manual labour in addition to the duties of master mariner, which brought him within Hie definition of worker. Judgment was given for the full claim. A yAUto named Frank Percival Miller, of Pclone, was convicted at the Masterton Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of having stolen a girl’s bicyclo belonging to Dr. Cowie. He was placed on probation for two years and ordered to refund to a second-hand dealer the money he had received for tho machine. Ol to-morrow I’m going to be married! My pulses with happiness whirl; I’d expire if much longer I tarried Without my "efficiency girl. Every night as she clicks her Corona, And types up my literature. I exclaim, “What a blessing to own her .And Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure! — Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 8
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188COMPENSATION CASE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 8
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