DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

N.Z. INSTITUTE

(liy Telegraph —Per Tress Association)

WELLINGTON, May 20

'Pile annual nieeting of the New Zealand Institute is being held today. The president, Dr. Coleridge Farr, delivered an address. Innaentally lie condemned those who pro/.s.sed to predict- earthquakes. In many cases, he said, these predictions were based on lack of exhaustive scientific inquiry. VERDICT REVERSED. WELLINGTON, May 20. The verdict of the jury .which in the Supreme Court on Friday found for James Grey Wright, labourer, in an action for damages against Cunningham Carrying C’oy., was reversed by His Honour, Mr Justice Reed in n reserved judgment to-day on the ground that the driver had failed to see the man who had reached safety. 'The jury award Wight. £202 6s 3d special and £250 general damages, hut in His Honour’s opinion no facts had been established from which negligence on the part of the lorry tlr»v* or, might l.m reasonably inferred and in thotie ufreuinstands there shoujfd be judgment for defendant. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH. May 20. George Cyril Palmer, a farm labourer, aged 2-1, was killed as a result of being thrown from a motor cycle when crossing a bridge between Fernside and Oltoka. The cycle struck the bridge and overturned.