WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 248, 13 October 1908, Page 2

WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

AN INTEUESTING POINT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Monday. An interesting decision in a compensation case was to-day filed by the Arbitration Court. Claimant, Regalado ilie.lls, was employed discharging coal from the steamer Kftkanoa at Napier breakwater on March 28. He started work at 8 a.m. and continued to work till noon, when ho stopped for the usual dinner hour. He went home for his meal, and wiliile he was returning I his 'bicycle skidded and he met with an accident. This accident, it was claimed, ] iyose out of and in the course of his employment by the Union Company. A claim was therefore made for compensation for the six weeks during which lie was incapacitated. The [ Court stated that tin're was no authority for saving that when a worker left his employer's premises during a meal hour for the purpose of obtaining a meal at- a place selected by himself the employment must be treated us continuing during such meal hour. The ('din t thought that in such circumstances employment should be treated us having been suspended during the absence of the worker from the place wihere the work was being done The claim was dismissed.