ARBITRATION COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8941, 5 October 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

Compensation Gases. Per PresajAssooiation. Inveecaegill, October 4,

At the Arbitration Court to-day, judgment was reserved in the case of Brassett v. Stephens, a claim for £3OO as compensation for the loss of the sight of an eye. Harold Studholme v. Joseph Mars ,vas an appeal from the finding of Mr McCarthy, S.M., who had awarded £75 to Mars for an accident sustained in appellant’s service. The allegation of appellant was that there was no evidence of a permanent injury involving incapacity, permanent or partial, and that the Magistrate had based his compensation erroneously. The Court, after hearing counsel, made an order for £1 a week compensation from September Is f , 190 G, to June 27th, 1907. In McCallum v. McKenzie, an appeal against Magistrate McCarthy’s decision in awarding £35 compensation to McKenzie, whom he found to be partially dependent upon his son Duncan McKenzie (who was drowned in the Mataura river while in the employ of the appellant), the Court held that the evidence of dependence was sufficient. Decision was reserved on the point as to whether the accident was in the course of work for appellant.