COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8853, 2 July 1907, Page 2

COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES.

An Interesting Point. Per I’rcss Association. Napier, July 2.^

A point of considerable interest in connection with compensation for injuries has just Jbeen decided by the Arbitration Court. At last sitting of. the .Court at Napier Timothy McCarthy applied for enforcement of an award made in November, 1905, in claimant’s favour for loss of his arm when employed by Ross and Sou at Port Ahuriri, such award being for 10s weekly until a stun total of £3OO was made, or the same was ended of redeemed under the provisions of. the Act. A counter claim was filed by respondents to have the payments extinguished on the ground that McCarthy was now oafuing the same, wages as at the time of the accident. The Court’s reserved judgment is as follows;—If in the present case claimant had boon applying for an award the Court could not have awarded him more than a nominal amount in respect of the period since ho obtained his present employment, and it follows therefore that payments under the existing order of the Court should bo reduced to a nominal amount. The Court has power to make a reduction operate retrospectively as from the date on which claimant’s incapacity Cfiasod, and we. make an order reducing the amount of. the award to Id per week as from February 26th, 1907. If at any time hereafter claimant is unable, owing to his injury, to earn at least £1 per week ho may apply to this Court to increase his weekly payment.