WIDOW'S CLAIM
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AWARDED SUBSTANTIAL COMPENSATION BY COURT
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Auckland, Thursday. A compensation award of £1035 was made by the Arbitration Court to-day to a widow, Yiva Doreen Johnson against the Hauraki County Coun cil. Her husband, while motor-cyc-ling late at night, collided with a cow on the road and was killed. He had been consulting a bus proprietor about traffic conditions and also about the danger caused by cattle wandering on the roads. The county council contended that as the accident happened on a Sunday it did not arise out of Johnson's employment, particularly as after attending to traffic matters he had gone to a football match and a dance. Mr. Justice Frazer said part of Johnson's duties was to patrol the roads at night, and there could be no doubt that on this oceasion, though returning from a dance, he was patrolling the road in the exercise of his duty.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 305, 19 August 1932, Page 5
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155WIDOW'S CLAIM Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 305, 19 August 1932, Page 5
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