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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 8

BUSINESS NOTICES. NEWTON KING, LTD Carry Full Stocks of All § STATION AND FARM REQUIREMENTS, including: i Government Certified Grass I Seed, “Mother” Akaroa Cocksfoot, Italian Rye and Clovers. Special “Sterling ‘£’ ” Fertiliser Mixtures, for grass, turnips, etc. Super, Basic Super, Pure Bonedust, Blood and Bone, Potash, Kainit, Sulphate of Ammonia and Iron, etc. Horse, Cow, Pig, Calf, and Fovzl Feed, including Eclipse and i Borthwick’s Meat Meal. Green, Sykes’, and Chamberlain’s Stock Drenches. Sterling, Leslie’s, and Lixit Salt Licks. Cooper’s, Little’s, Murton’s and Quibbell’s Sheep Dips; Vacmark and other Branding Fluids. British Fencing Wire and Netting in all gauges, sizes and mesh; Staples. Wilson’s Cement; “Anvil” Paints; Saddlery and Harness; British Corrugated Iron and Nails. McPhail’s “Cleanso” & Cooper’s Lamb and Sheep Drenches; Cooper’s Worm Tablets. NEWTON KING LTD STRATFORD.

Dead Doctor Was Negliges!

£5,000 DAMAGES FOR A PATIENT’S WIDOW A slight, frail widow with greying hair sat in the well of a crowded King’s Bench Court (London) recently. With hands tightly clasped, she heard a red-robed judge award her and her two children £5OOO damages as compensation for the death of her husband, a Civil servant, who had been earning £l,OOO a year. She was Mrs Margaret Connolly, of Argyle square, W.C. She alleged that Dr. Henry Homer Rubra, of Crouch Hall road, Crouch End, who attended her husband, had failed to use due skill and care. “I am glad this long legal struggle is over,” Mrs Connolly told a reporter. “It has meant months of waiting, but my legal advisers have been splendid. I cannot thank them sufficiently. * ‘ Money can never compensate me for the loss of my susband, but it will help in bringing up the children.” After Mrs Connolly had begun her action against Dr. Rubra, the doctor died, and Mrs Ethel Katharine Rubra, his widow and executrix, continued the defence. Mr Justice Greaves-Lord, giving judgment, said that if proper steps had been taken tuberculosis would have been found in 1931 and, if so, Mr Connolly’s life might have Of the £5,000 damages, he apportioned £3,500 to Mrs Connolly, £7OO to the elder son, and £BOO to the younger son. It was that Mrs Rubra