DOCTOR'S GARDENER.
m INJURED WHILE WORKING. COMPENSATION REFUSED. ACT NOT APPICABLE. (By Telegraph.—-Press" Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. The Arbitration Court was asked to decide in a compensation claim whether a gardener employed by a medical man was entitled to claim compensation I within the meaning of the Act, if he received an injury while engaged in that work. Plaintiff alleged that while working in defendant's garden he received personal injuries and was unable to carry on his ocupation for two months. He, claimed for loss of wages. Mr. Justice Frazer said it was difficult to give a precise meaning of the word "work" in the Act, but one would never say a doctor was carrying on the work of a gardener, nor was he a nurseryman. The Act did not apply to people working about a man's house or ground. Judgment was given for defendant.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 112, 14 May 1929, Page 15
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