HEALTH AMENDMENT BILL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 6

HEALTH AMENDMENT BILL

♦ TECHNICAL MEASURE SENT TO COMMITTEE i From Our Parliamentary Reporter.)" WELLINGTON. March 4. The Health Amendment Bill, which was introduced ih the earlier part of the session, and contains a number of miscellaneous clauses dealing with the health dministratic.i, was to-day read a second time pro forma, and referred to the Health Committee of the House of Representatives Ih reply to a question by the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. ,Adam Hamilton- the Minister for Health fthe Hhii; P. Fraser) said, that he exbected nat the bill would be gone ahead with this session. It contained only one clause that was at all debateable, but if there were any doubts aboiit it, he was qiiite prepared to allow it .0 stanc- over until the next sessiOh. It Was . a technical measure and the Health GOmrhittee could deal with it better than the HOuse.

COMPENSATION CLAIM FAILS —_♦_ ftESPItVED JUDGMENT GIVEN U'RES* »330C1ATI0N rELEGRi.M.I WELLINGTON. March 4. A reserved judgment for defendant was given in. the Court of Arbitration tO-day by Mr Jl: Uce O'Regan; in a cpmpensav-on case recently lieijrd in SisbOrn.e, in which GeOrge HOward Ore, Gisborhe, labourer) sued Roderick Francis Leigh, Tokomaru Bav. farther, for £2OB as compensation and £26 14s 6d for funeral expenses. The case, arose from the death by accident oh March 29, 1936, of plaintiff's son. GedrgO Ftfe.dijrick MOore, while employed by defendant. I ..The . lUaghient stated Frederick MaOJre left bh hOrseback bn the morning for a cOWshed where he assisted with tlife milking: He had previously frieiltiOhed . that he proposed going to ihspect k tic-fee . with a view to purchasing it* He failed to appear at the cOwshecT fOJr the evening nd H#3tt Qav his. bbdy was found fully clothed ih a deep pool. . .The Cbuft was asked to hold that MoQfi Was drOWned by ah accideht Srisirig Out Of ahd in the coufsebf his empl6j>meht. ''That Moore deviated ffom His UsUal r6Ute is clear," said MrJustice O'liegan. "Why he did so, it is.impossible to s&y.-and in the absence of evidence we fflust Bald tHat he ceased to be in the cbtifsfe of- his emplbyrheftt when he did sb: There are no kndWn facts Which ehable- us to infer the reasbh Why he weht several fiurtdred yards further up the sitr'earnr' «..; ittlloWs that th& .aeefctght heither' arose out of his "employment nor occurred in the course thereof."