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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 24, 1928
Page
4
A medical witness discusses accident criteria for a back injury linked to an insurance policy. Questions focus on whether the injury qualifies as an accident, necessity of circumstances, timing of form delivery, policy cancellation, and what constitutes sufficient medical proof for a payout.
The witness states 80 percent likelihood that strain evidence exists today through gait and limb wasting. He notes the patient’s history could be an imposition, with the scar of a previous abscess and wasted back as key signs. He affirms the injury is due to an accident in June and that the plaintiff likely told the truth.
Santo Nucifora testified he had accident policy with ALLA and paid £13 14s to Tony Busettel after being injured in April 1927. Lawyers argued over producing the original policy. judge adjourned the case to August 29 to obtain the contract, with the policy reportedly held at the head office in Sydney.
In the British House of Commons the Savidge report prompted Home Secretary Joynson Hicks to announce new police instructions. A royal commission will review the case and both reports will be exhaustively examined. The majority report was adopted amid criticism of Archibald Bodkin and related conduct.
The Gordonvale branch met at Sutcliffe Hall on the 18th with tea and floral decor. They passed a resolution urging Anzac Day to be gazetted as a close and sacred industrial holiday, discussed rest room matters, ambulance charity efforts, and upcoming events including a social at Aloomba and a marriage tea for Miss Grace Brown.
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