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FOR WORKERS’ WIDOW. (By Telegraph—Press Association).NEW PLYMOUTH, March 27. Deciding a suggestion that Richard Morris had committed suicide by throwing himself under a steam roller, the Arbitration Court to-day awarded Morris's widow £7-11, the full amount claimed, as compensation frqiri the Mawera County Council, by whom Morris was employed. Alorris was crushed by a steam roller while working on a road. The evidence was to the effect that he suffered from ill-health, and was subject to diezy turns. The driver of the roller said that he seemed to throw himself under the roller deliberately, but the other evidence was that Morris had shown no suicidal tendency. U
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 4
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