ARBITRATION COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1930, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT

SITTING AT GREYMOUTII. GREY-MOUTH, October 21. A sitting of the Arbitration Court was held at Greymputh yesterday. Mr •Justice Frazer presided, and with h.m were Messrs W. Cecil Prime, employers’ representative, and A. L. Monieitii workers’ representative. John ALcFarlane, miner, of Brunnurton, claimed compensation from the Grey Valley Collieries, Ltd. Plaintiff was represented by Mr P. J- OT’ogaii, and defendants by Mr F. A. Kitcliingham. The statement of claim set out that on July 2, 1929, while employed in tin mine, plaintiff was struck on the head by a heavy cross-bar, which fractured his skull ; that his average weekly earnings exceeded £6; and that defendants had paid £IBO in compensation. He claimed a weekly payment of £4 to the date of trial, such further lump sum as may be reasonable, and costs. The Chart awarded MeFarlane a total of £169 5s 9d plus £l, medical fees

and less £lßl already paid b,v defend- j ant, making £283 5s 9d. Medical ex- ( penses £2 2s and solicitor’s lee £l2 | 12s were allowed plaintiff. MINER’S CLAIM FAILS. A claim for £lO 14s Cd as the result of an injury to his leg, by Edward Docherty, a miner employed at the James Colliery, Rumuign, was dismissed. Plaintiff in his statement of claim set out that on December 12, 1929, lie was assisting to push a laden skip of coal and he slipped, and in consequence injured the muscles of his rgiht leg, which disabled him for three i weeks and one clay’. lie set out nis average earnings to he not less than 95 16s Cd per week. The Mines Depart- ) meet denied liability. - Costs were granted for the Crown I £5 ss, and witness’ expenses for Gril- . fiths on the Magistrate’s Court scale. ) . SETTLED OUT OF COURT. i The cases of William James Freitas, - tractor driver versus A- R- Wallis, Ltd., and of Joseph Patrick Murphy, versus Gilbert Tomnsi Sawmills Ltd., were settled out of Court.