COMPENSATION CLAIM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1098, 19 September 1912, Page 3

COMPENSATION CLAIM.

FI,A.XMiIyL( ACCIDENT. Judgment of the Arbitration Court was delivered by his Honour, Mr Justice Sim, at Wellington, on Tuesday, in the case ol John Dalzell v. Craw Brothers, a claim tor compensation. In November last plaintiff was employed in a flaxmill at Tokomaru. While at work on 19th November, he had the little finger ot his right hand injured by an accident arising in the course of his work. Septic poisoning ensued, and the finger had to be amputated. The inflammation spread to the wrist and up the arm, and practically all the tendons ot the hand sloughed. It was clear from the medical evidence that the hand was permanently and wholly useless. The mill in which plaintiff was working belonged to defendants, but plaintiff vv;iS not employed by defendants, and was not entitled to recover compensation from them unless the case came within the term of section 13 of the Workers’ Compensation Act, 1908. After considering the facts of the matter, the Court came to the decision that the case did come within this section. An order was made for payment of compensation at the rate of 4s per week for eleven weeks, and to a lump sum under the second schedule lor the total loss of his right hand, according to the rules laid down in Rough v, Prouse Eumber, LAd. Plaintiff was allowed his costs (,£l2 12s), with witness’expenses, but not for plaintiff’s wile, whose evidence was immaterial.