ARBITRATION COURT.
Press Association. WELLINGTON, last night, An interesting compensation case, Carruthers v. the Union Co., was argued before the Arbitration Court to-day. Claimant’s case was that while working as a greaser on the s.s. Mararoa he felt the quadrant to see if it was warm.- The pumping lever came down and took two fingers off liis left hand. He contends that this injury constitutes a partial incapacity ,and claims £2OO comjiensation. The accident took place 12 miles south of Cape Campbell on a trip from Wellington to Lyttelton. Tho Company sets up the defence that any partial incapacity that may have been suffered may not endure during life, and is therefore not a permanent injury; also, that the accident occurred on the high seas, and was beyond the territorial waters of New Zealand. Judgment was reserved.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2121, 2 July 1907, Page 2
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