IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10317, 28 January 1927, Page 3

IN THE COURTS

POISONED THUMB ATTRIBUTED TO HOME-MADE SOAP ARBITRATION COURT NOT CONVINCED AUCKLAND. Jan. 27. A claim for compensation Ai»auel iiame Oakes, a domestic servant, against Auicu Hon away, proprietor oi the Waikwoitu .tlotci, *or compensation tor too poisoning oi nei .ununo attributed to tue use oi hoinemaue soap, lias Hen dismissed by tlie Arbitration Court, The ingredients Vere .Lib caustic soda to Vib pt fat. . _ . T',»e Court, in a reserved judgment, said that even if it were found that the soap caused tlie cracking of the skin it was unable to find that tlie cracking was an accident in the proper sense of tlie word. They required proof that the bacilli that entered plaintiff’s thumb were the particular species associated with her work, and that tlie infection arose from and in the course of her employment. Medical opinion had been unable to express a view, and the Court could not hazard a guess.—P.A.

PRISONERS SENTENCED AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. Two ex-Borstal boys, George Colcord, (alias Curtis) and H. Brewer, were sentenced at Auckland tnis morning to six months’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years’ reformative treatment, for theft of .money ; , and were remanded to Harm.ton for gaol breaking there. Leslie George Dunn, id, this morning was committed to tlie Supreme Court for sentence on charges of arson in connection with the destruction by fire of four shops at Panmure last Friday and to another of breaking, entering and theft.-—P.A. OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND RESISTING POLICE SIX MONTHS’ GAOL WAIROA, Jan. 27. In the Police Court this morning, William King was sentenced to six months’ gaol with hard labor, for obscene language and resisting the police.—P.A.