COMPENSATION CLAIM FAILS.
MISHAP WITH CIRCULAR SAW. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Thursday. The claim for £222 9/G as compensation for the loss of the right forefinger, brought in the Arbitration Court by Thomas James Gibson, coal and firewood merchant, Hamilton East, against William Alexander Barber and Charles William Shepherd, trading under the name of Crawford and Company, wood and coal merchants, Claudelands, was rejected. Mr. Justice Blair announced that the Court was of opinion that plaintiff had not discharged the onus imposed on him to prove that he was a worker. The evidence showed that lie had engaged an assistant and had entered into a contract with defendants to cut a specific quantity of wood at a quoted price per day.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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121COMPENSATION CLAIM FAILS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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