EARTHQUAKE FIRE
KARAMEA CLAIM. INSURANCE COY. NOT LIABLE. WELLINGTON, March 10. An interesting case, in view of the questions raised on the result of the Hnwkes Bay earthquake, regarding payment by insurance companies to policy holders whose pifopei'ty was destroyed by fire, came before Air Justice Blair to-day. ' The action arose'from a fire which destroyed a- ten-roomed wooden house occupied by James Grant Duncan, farmer, at Karamea, after the eartftquake on the West Coast on June 17. 1029, a claim being made under an alleged policy against Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society. The amount nvolved is £BOO.
The defendants deny that there is ■my liability, as the earthquake was n •outributing cause of the fire His Honor ruled that the fire was ‘he result of an earthquake, and that ‘he policy did not provide for this •isle. He gave judgment for the defendant company
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1931, Page 3
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