SPLINTER IN FINGER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 122, 26 May 1927, Page 5

SPLINTER IN FINGER.

WORKER CLAOU DAMAGES.

FARMER DENIES LIABILITY. CBt Tdf-sT*!,!—on rnrmiinatißi 1 HAMILTON, till day. Mr. Jut tire Fraxer *as asked !a Hundun, to-day to award compensation andcr the Workers , Compeautiaa Act on a claim by C&ristophcr Johacton. rarpeater, of Xewetead. against William Tborna, Cut, farmer, of Hamiltoa, ™., M fcJaiT allegedly rewired by him whUe working for defendant* ****** * W Aap»t, 1936. be vii engaged br defendant as a earpcaicr oa atle^i ffiJ] Ndc la the conn* of bis employment be ran a wood splinter into the but of Uβ btlle Sager, and Ja eoaeemieace he Slm ****?*? . Mr P c «J ©peratkma iavolring 13 ineswons of tie haul and wnst. He n.i totally incapacitated from S*pt«aiber 27 to XorcaW 7, dnriar which fame be «-a» jn hospital, aad tisne tbca unlil tbe preeeat time b» bad beea p*rJl*l3y iacajadtiled. inp Cβ per cent ef bit camiaj-i for tax w«sk», aad such ©tier ««a as tbe Ccrart caw fit to awird. Tins defence w»e m denial tbat pleiatjff rcecjred tbe injury wbile ia deffsdaof* employ, and, aiteraitirclj, aotioe of tie accident vu not girea ac aooa at prarUcable. It *u aluo ooatended tbat ihe injury. If ctutaiand. odlbrr aff*cl*d nor araeierated tb* Ulbch wbich plaialiff «-a« from at tbe time.