WITH BROKEN BACK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 1

WITH BROKEN BACK

NEW ZEALANDER RETURNS FROM C ANADA MEAGRE COMPENSATION Mr. Frank Hyde, aged 25, a New Zealander born in Gisborne, who i» a passenger on the liner Aorangi, due in Auckland tol sorrow afternoon, has no occasion to recall his experience in Canada with delight. i\S a result of an accident while employed on a Canadian farm, Mr. Hyde is returning to his native land with a broken back. The only compensation he has received, according to his legal advisers, is a sum of 200 dollars, equivalent to He was informed by the Canadian Government that he must leave the country, and the Union Steam Ship Company, by whose line he crossed the Pacific, was called upon to return “im to the New Zealand port from *hich he sailed. On communicating with the Immigration Department; in New Zealand, Hyde’s relatives were informed Jhat the case was no concern of that Department. rran^e merits have been made with the Auckland Hospital Board for the returned New Zealander to be transferred from the steamer to the hosPital. As Mr. Hyde is Gisborne-born, however, he will probably have to be removed to an institution in that district. Strictly speaking, he is not a tase for the Auckland Hospital. . Mr. Hyde is regarded as a hopeless ’Qvalid. Special treatment and apparatus is necessarilv essential in a c ase like this. Whether he has a further claim upon f* 1 * Canadian employer, reputed to oe a Wealthy farmer, is a matter that is €n &aging legal consideration.