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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43089, 7 May 1907, Page 4

At the Arbitration Court sitting in Auckland Ellen A. Summerfield claimed the sum otf £4OO from Daniel H. Lusk and Newell W. B. Lusk, as compensation for thle death of her husband Who was killed through an accident in the bush near Te Kuiti on August 25th, 1906. According to the statement otf counsel for the claimant, the deceased was the Holder of a piece of land under the lease in perpetuity tenancy, and the respondents employed him to fell the bush on it for '24e per acre l , out of which 6d was deducted for insurance. The only matter in dispute was whether the deceased hiad been a eontraictor or an employer. Judgment was re-i served. s