WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 6

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

TWO CLAIMS GRANTED. J • I , JJ . i ■ .. .... ■ .... AUCKLAND, July 22;' The misfortune of a boy Who lost 1 - the thumb and all the fingers of his riglit hand on the first day of his s employment was the subject 1 • of>‘a claim heard by the Arbitration Court, claimant was Maurice Austin Mason, aged fifteen years, who sought coni-, from his employer, Henry T; Read, a butcher, of Mount Eklen'." On February 3 ‘ Tasty- the' boy %a.S’. iriincihg meat for sausages When' Tih over-balanced, and his right hand came entangled in the mincing hiach-.' ine, with the result that the thumb And 'fingers' were"'amputated. Counset* said the boy had not received any wages',"' and die" was dhrployed onf.|l|b' morning of; the accident for': the, "firsfb'. ti hie. The Court awarded - compeiisk-' tion totalling £612. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed with costs, iwiis livered by Mr Justice Frazerviii the Arbitration Court when Elizabeth Eva Elliot, a widow of Ofa.h.uhu,- ; claimed £750 from Alfred DuCkland| and Sonjs, Ltd., commission a.geiits|' for the death of her husband, Aiexf| under Fulton Elliot. The claim wa| made under the Workers'. jCompensa-;; tion Act, 1922. Plaintiff ‘ claimed; that her husband, who was in the employ of defendant company at ,the time of his death, ,was killed by "|t •train at a,;;.railway ofbssihg between!Penrose and Southdown ', on August" 13,-.; 1926, widle j etiirning on a horse! •provided frtr his use to the housei which lie was; required, to live and. wh£ aetingPin the course of , liis employment. ••-■• -ij;:: j