COMPENSATION FOR LAD’S LOST EYE
AN INTRICATE CASE While temporarily working on the farm of H. Masters, Manurewa. Noel Baker, a minor, was struck on the eye by a stick wielded by a fellow-worker. As a result he lost permanently the sight of his left eye. He claimed compensation from Masters in the Arbitration Court this moraBefore taking on farm labour, Baker was employed in a warehouse, and the point at issue was on what wages should the compensation be based. The c]aim of Baker was that if his eye had not been injured he would have been able to earn £5 a week at the age of 21. Mr. F. L. G. West, for Masters, argued that for the purpose of the Workers’ Compensation Act:, it was not a case of claimant’s ambitions, but the employment he was in at the time of the accident, and that compensation should be based on what he would have been earning if at the time of the accident he had been 21.
The claimant gave evidence that he had not given up his intensions of following the drapery trade, and that he had only undertaken farm labour as a stop-gap when he was unable to get work in city shops. His Honour, Mr. Justice Frazer, intimated that the case was an intricate one, and that he would give; the Court s decision in writing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 11
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232COMPENSATION FOR LAD’S LOST EYE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 11
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