AMICABLY SETTLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 5

AMICABLY SETTLED.

ARBITRATION CLAIMS.

ACCIDENTS TO EMPLOYEES

COUNSEL CONGRATULATED,

A pacific atmosphere prevailed at the Arbitration Court to-day when, in addition to a case settled as the result of a conference of medical men just before the Court sat, several settlements were intimated and formally struck out, his Honor Mr. Justice Blair complimenting counsel on the evident 6access of conciliatory efforts.

In the claim of John Henry William Sudfelt against the Union Steamship Company it was stated that the plaintiff had been paid compensation to date and a further basis of 60 per cent for total permanent incapacity was agreed upon. Sudfelt was engaged on August 2 last year working in connection with the bunkering of coal from a hulk into the Maheno. A piece of coal from a basket struck him on the head and caused severe concussion. It was a very dimcult case. Medical expenses, amounting to £0 0/ and £10 10/ legal fee, were allowed. The proceedings had been adjourned from last session. A sum of £936, in addition to £21 6/6 funeral and medical expenses, constituted the terms in the case of the Public Trustee in the estate of Frederick Richard Wilkin against Winstone, Ltd. The deceased, a motor truck driver, employed by the defendants, was driving along Mount Eden Road On May 21 when the truck collided with a telegraph pole and burst into flames. Wilkin was severely burnt and died the next day. The- claim was on behalf of deceased's wife and infant daughter.

Hit By Bucket Of Asphalt,

The terms in the case of Daisy Adelaide O'Sullivan against the Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd., were £838 13/8 and £22 1/ funeral and medical expenses. On February 2 Timothy James O'Sullivan, late husband of the plaintiff, was engaged by defendants shifting bags of mortar in a lane adjoining the construction of Smith and Caughey's new building (the old Opera House site), when a bucket containing hot asphalt fell 70 feet and struck him in tho back. He died the same day, being survived by plaintiff and a daughter. Arising from an accident on a farm where he was employed breaking etones for road purposes at Patumahoe on April 5 this year, James Bennett received a sum of £105 and expenses for injury to his eye, which was injured by a piece of stone. He was in the Auckland Hospital from April 18 to May 15 and the sight of the eye was completely impaired. The employer was H. Carter. Alexander Marinaus Anderson, a waterside worker, who was injured in the back when he stumbled and fell while shifting the hatch of the steamer Nalicia at Queen's wharf in July last year, was allowed £122 4/2 and costs by the stevedores, Neary and Co. "The Court Is Grateful." "I should like to congratulate you, Mr. Sullivan, on arranging these various settlements," said his Honor. "The Court is very grateful at the opportunity you have giVen us to catch up on cases for consideration." Mr.' Sullivan: I fhank you, your Honor, and I must say the doctors have been very helpful. Mr. J. J. Sullivan appeared for the plaintiff in each caee and Mr. B. L. Bagnall appeared for defendants in two instances.