COMPENSATION CASE.
AWARD OF £1035. irRESS ASSOCIATION TELJEORiM.) AUCKLAND, August IS. A compensation award of £1033 was made by the Arbitration Court to-day to a widow, Viva Dor€en Johnson, against the Hanraki County Council. Her husband, while motor-cycling late at night, collided with a cow in the road and was killed. He had been consulting a bus proprietor about traffic conditions, and also about the danger caused by cattle wandering on tho roads.
The County Council contended that as tbe accident happened on a Sunday, it did not arise out of Johnson's employment, particularly as, after attending to traffic matters, ho had gone to a football match and dance. Mr Justice Frazer said part of Johnson's duties was to patrol the roads at night and there could be no doubt that on this occasion, though returning from a dance, he was patrolling the road in the exercise of his duty.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 19 August 1932, Page 9
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