COMPENSATION CLAIMS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18149, 12 August 1924, Page 6

COMPENSATION CLAIMS.

ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS. («W! ASSOCIATION' IXLS3E4JI.) WELLINGTON, August, 11... The Arbitration\Court.-tHa .'morning dealt -with compensation cases. In the case of Thojn&s Brown v. Richardson and Co., a claim for compensation for injuries to a foot while working on the steamer Ripple, in October last, it was stated a settlement had bean arranged out of Court. | A settlement had alio been. come ,to in the claim Violet Gertrude Dixon against the Colonial Carrying Co., for the death of heir husband; in' an accident on April 17th. The settlement was for the payment of £768'16s 6d. Half the amount goes to the widow and' J the other haft will be paid to the Public Trustee for the benefit of plaintiff's two boys. . .. An application was - made on of, Edith Elsif Henderson, a widow, at present residing in England; .arid, her child, for apportionment ofj.£7oCl compensation awarded last; AfcrilV oja.. account oi the deith of vArchibald B. Henderson, who was kiUed throfctkh a fall down the hold of the Union'Sfceain Ship Co.'s steamer Koromiko, at Bluff * in April last. The Court apportioned one-third to.th 6 wid6w, and two-tnirds to th 6 child, the' money "to be'. invested by the Bnblic Trnstea.