ARBITRATION COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3116, 21 June 1917, Page 9

ARBITRATION COURT

WRECK OT A SCOW.

The two cases arising out of tho wreck of the scow Southern Isles -were concluded in tho Arbitration Gouty yesterday, before His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer, and Messrs. W. Scott and J. A. M'Cullough. The cases were Catherine Cory \\ the Government Insurance Commissioner, and Benjamin Clifton v. tho Government Insurance Commissioner. Mr. P. J- 0 Began appeared for the plaintiff in each case, and Mr. C. ~H. TrcadweU for tho defendants. . The scow was lost with all hands in Cook Strait, and among those lost wero the owners of the ship, and they left no' estate. Consequently no claim for compensation could be mado against them, and tho action was taken against the insurance offico in which the owners had a policy for £1(100 indemnifying _ them against claims under the Workers' Compensation Act. The claimants wero tho dependants of two members of the crew, who perished in the wreck. . Mrs. Cory, widow of George Cory, claimed £360, and Benjamin Clifton asked tho Court to determine the amount to which he was entitled as a partial dependant. By consent judgment was entered for Mrs. Cory for the amount ciairaed, £360, with £5 ss. costs. The Court directed that the sum of £40 be paid to the. widow, and that the b;\Lancc be invested by the Public Trustee for her benefit. In tho case of Clifton the Court held that the evidence established some degree of dependency, and an amount of £50 was awarded, with £5 ss. costs. Proderick Duskv proceeded against Gan7iaway and Company, stevedores, for compensation for injuries alleged to have been received by him in the course of his emnlovment as a waterside worker. Mr P J- O'Regan appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. M. Mvers for the defendant. The case for the plaintiff was that on October 13, wliito employed by defendants in the freezing chamber of a vessel in Wellington, he was jammed between a derrick and one of flie ship's boats, siillering a broken collarbone. His average parniii"S at the time were at the rate of £4 IBs. per week. He had received payments by way of weekly compensation for loss of wages to January 20 ami lie claimed further payments un till the date of his return to work. March 20. also £1 os. 3d. per week, being half the difference between his earnings before the nwident and his present wages. It was stated that an offer of settlement had been made by the defendants, but the plaintiff .had refused it, and it was suggested that he hod refused, because of his neurasthenic condition. The Court hold that the oflor of settlement had been a reasonable one, but that in view of the man's condition some further sum should be awarded, and judgment, wns given accordingly for £35, with costs £5 ss.

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