CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACTS.
A COMPENSATION CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Might. A question of some importance in connection with co-operative contracts disposed of by judgment of the Arbitration Court to-day. The parents of Patrick Lawless sued the Public \\ orks Department for compensation for bis death. A co-operative gang bad been assigned a piece of work on the Catlins Railway construction, and they arranged with one Seholes to provide a how; to draw trucks. He in turn employed deceased to drive the horse, and paid him (is per day. Oti May sth Lawless was killed while at work. Hie question for the court to determine was whether the co-operative gang were contractors or pieceworkers. The Court held that they were contractors, which brought tile ease under section 13 of the Workers' Compensation -Vet, 1008,. The Court allowed £18(i compensation.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 253, 1 December 1909, Page 2
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138CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 253, 1 December 1909, Page 2
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