ARBITRATION COURT.
Press Association. Auokaud, October 30. The Arbitration Court reserved judgment in the claim by Ernest Gibbs against Thompson and Hall, his former employers. While Gibbs was stacking sugar lie had to bear a heavy weight caused by another employee letting a sack of sugar slip. Ho felt something had broken and was taken homo senseless. He lias been laid up for four mouths with paralysis of the left arm and leg. The defence was that the case was not an accident within the meaning of the Act. English decisions are contradictory and there lias been no similar case in New Zealand.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8963, 31 October 1907, Page 2
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103ARBITRATION COURT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8963, 31 October 1907, Page 2
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