COURT OF ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 3

COURT OF ARBITRATION.

• . • COMPENSATION QASES. f ■ His Honour Mr.'-'Justice Stringer presided in the' Court of Arbitration yesterday, when the business was resumed, 1 and sitting with him as' assessors were: Messrs. .W. Scott (employers' representative); and 'J; A. M'G.nllbugh- (employees' representative). Before the compensation -cases were proceeded with, Mr. E/' Kennedy mentioned the matter of -tho Plumbers' and Qasfitters' Award. Ho stated that, as the representative of . the Patent Slip Company could not bo present, the union had agreed to withdraw the application to add that compaaiyi.but would apply to the Couit at a.;later'sitting, when the company could be represented. • His Honour Struck out the name of the company. / Wharf, Worker's Claim. Judgment for the plaintiff for .£2OO and five guineas costs, was given in,-the ,case of AViliiam Jardiue v. the Union Steam Ship Company, of New Zealand: Mr. P; J. O'Repari appeared for Jardine, while Mr. P. Levi appeared for the' defendant company. Jardine, who was a labourer by occupation, sustained an injuury to' his heart while working for tho Union Company 011 -tho steamer Kurow on April 2i, 1913. Hp had since been' permanently incapacitated, and, by arrangement between tho parties, it was agreed that his claim for compensation should be settled by the payment of ,£2OO ancf five' guineas costs. The Court was yesterday . asked to award judgment for that amount,'and did so./ v A Cat's Bite. The Court delivered reserved judgment in the compensation case of Phillips v. Mercer, heard last week. Phillips- had to have his finger amputated as -the result of an injury received while engaged in catching a cat. The Court held that the injury was sustained during the course of plaintiff's employment as a porter, at the Metropolitan Hotel, Wellington, and suggested that the amount of compensation could be arranged between tho parties, but if not a further application could be made to the Court. It had been shown during the cose that the plaintiff hiid maife a false statement to an insurance company for the purposo of obtaining ' insurance, and the Court marked its'disapproval of his- conducft by refusing to allow him costs Mr. P; >T. O'Ecga-n appeared for the plaintiff, while Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon appeared for the defendant.. Hurt on H;M.S, Arawa. Reserved judgment 'was -also 'delivered in. the compensation case of-Bertrick Evans v. the Shaw, Savill, .and'. Albion Co. Tho plaintiff in this action had been permanently incapacitated through fracturing his skull by a fall, while working on tho R.M.S. Arawa on March 8, 1913. The Court assessed tlie compensation-due to Evans as>an amount of £225, together with five guineas costs and disbursements. Mr. P. J. o'R«g-in appeared for-Evans, while Mr. M. Myers appeared: for the defendant company. Harbour Board Employee's Death. Still another compensation caso dealt with yesterday was • that in which the plaintiff ra the Public Trustee (as ad- ' ministriitor of the estate of George Hope, deceased), and the defendant the Wellington Harbour Board. The deceased met ljis death on' March 28, 1014, as trie result of an accident while in the employ of tho Harbour Board, and the Court vns asked to say what sum would be.a rensonablo amonnt of comnensn'tion for his relatives. The Court awarded the sum of /£GO. with five guineas costs and disbursements.