COMPENSATION PAID

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 765, 11 September 1929, Page 7

COMPENSATION PAID

FIVE CLAIMS SETTLED COUNSEL CONGRATULATED Congratulations upon the settlement of several compensation claims which came before the Arbitration Court were tendered by Mr. Justice Blair toJHr. J. J. Sullivan this morning. The court is grateful for the opportunity of catching up with the work reserved for consideration,” added the judge. Five actions were settled out of court, the terms being announced. Mr. . Sullivan appeared for claimants in all cases. The sum of £957 has been paid in compensation by Winstone, Ltd., for the death of Frederick Richard Wilkin, a motor-truck driver employed by the firm. W ilkin died from burns received when his motor-lorry collided with a telegraph pole and burst into flames on Mount Eden Road on May Compensation totalling £S6I has been paid by the Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd., to Daisy Adelaide O Sullivan for the death of her husband, Timothy O'Sullivan. Deceased, who was employed as a labourer in the erection of Smith and Caughey's new building, was fatally injured when a bucket of hot asphalt, which was being hoisted, became detached from the hook and fell striking him on the back. For the loss of the sight of one eye, in which he was struck by a flying fragment while breaking stone James BeDnett, a Patumahoe labourer, has been compensated to the extent of £lO5 by his employer, H. Carter, a farmer. Struck on the head bj' a lump of coal falling from a basket while he was engaged in bunkering the Maheno on August 2, John Henry William Sudfelt has been paid full compensation to date by the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd. Future compensation has been fixed at 60 per cent, of the total permanent incapacity. The sum of £122 has been fixed as compensation to be paid by Neary and Company to Alexander M. Anderson, a watersider, who fell and injured his back while engaged in unloading the Valacia at Queen’s Wharf on July 11 last year.