COMPENSATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 August 1924, Page 9

COMPENSATION.

CLAIMS BEFORE ARBITRATION COURT. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AVELLINGTON, Aug. 11. The Arbitration Court this morning dealt with compensation cases. In the ease Thomas Brown v. Richardson and Co., a claim for compensation for injuries to a foot while working on the steamer Ripple in October last, it was stated that a settlement had been arranged out of court. A settlement had also been come to in the claim Gertrude Dixon against the Colonial Carrying Co. for the death of' her husband in an accident on April 17. The 'settlement was for payment of £(117 16s 6d. Half the amount goes to the widow and the other half is to be paid to the Public Trustee for the benefit- of plaintiff’s two boys. An application was made on behalf of Edith Henderson, widow, at present residing in England, and her child, for an apportionment of the .£750 compeimntion awarded last April on account of the death of Archibald B. Henderson, who was killed through a fall down the hold of the Union Company’s steamer Koromiko at the Bluff in April last. The court apportioned one-third to the widow and two-thirds to the child, the money to be invested by the Public Trustee."