SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT.
COMPENSATION AWARDED. By Telegraph —Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. At the Supreme Court the jury to-day gave judgment in a case in which Charles Gibbons claimed £592 from Warpole and Patterson, building contractors, for injuries alleged to have been received as the result of an accident due to the collapse of scaffolding. Plaintiff alleged that a piece of matai timber had been used, and that it broke when the extra weight of a big rafter came on to it. The defence denied that there had been any negligence in erecting the scaffolding, or that any matai had been used.
The jury awarded £270 compensation in addition to the amount paid under the Workers* Compensation Act.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1921, Page 5
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117SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1921, Page 5
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