£5,000 Claim For
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Alleged
Wrongful Dismissal
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Mar. 16.
Mr. Peter Plowman, A Fc
mer employee of the Ne Zealand Reparation Estates, whi« controls large coconut plantations Western Samoa, in a claim again the Crown, heard on March II asked for damages and compensatio amounting to £5,000 for wrong® dismissal.
Mr. Plowman, who had acted !
Stores Manager of the Estates sim March, 1949. claimed that he h; been dismissed because of ston shortages for which he was not n sponsible, as extra duties imposed o him made it impossible for him exercise efficient control. Among other duties, he had to make trii periodically to the Tokelau Islam and be absent from Apia a week a time. (Chief Judge Marsack latl awarded damages of £l4l and cos.
He said that Plowman was dismissi. without proper cause.) Mr. V. J. Murray, lately Harboi Master at Lae, New Guinea, w' visiting Sydney in March.