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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1939, Page 4

The Arbitration Court spent a fourth successive day in Christchurch discussing heart ailments, the basis of workers’ compensation claims. After several medical witnesses had discussed at. length the importance of breathlessness as a symptom of heart weakness. Mr Justice Callan, to illustrate the medical evidence, discussed his own experience on the occasion when he had to run for a tram in Auckland. Actually, an obliging conductor held the tram up when he saw him coming down the hill, said his Honour, but he felt that in the circumstances the graceful thing to do was run. There was a certain amount of breathlessness at the end of that, his Honour added, and the medical witness in the dock agreed that there would be. Later in the evidence, his Honour added thoughtfully that after all he had heard he would probably not be doing co much running in the future.