WIDOW LOSES CLAIM

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28950, 18 July 1959, Page 13

WIDOW LOSES CLAIM

Death Of Gunman Husband MELBOURNE, July 17 Mrs Beryl Jean Harrison, the widow of a reputed gunman. Frederick William Harrison, to day missed a £2320 workers compensation award by 20 feet. The Victorian Workers’ Compensation Board held that Harrison, a ship’s painter and decker, was not at his place of employment when he was killed by a shotgun blast on February 6 lasi year The board said a raised wooden structure on the wharf, 20 feet from where Harrison fell, was his place of employment. Harrison was shot by an unknown man while be was detaching a trailer from his car on a Melbourne wharf. On the day of his death, the court was told Harrison finished work at noon and returned about 4 p.m. to collect his pay. Mrs Harrison claimed workers' compensation for the death of her husband on behalf of herself and her daughter. The board found that Harrison returned from a hotel where he had been drinking to the wharf for two reasons—to return the trailer and to collect his pay. Picking up his pay was part of his contract of employment but he had received his pay and left his place of employment when the shooting occurred, the board said. Mrs Harrison would have been entitled to compensation if Harrison had been travelling from work to his “place of residence.”

Flood Deaths.—The death toll from the floods in Southern Japan has risen to 43, with 12 missing and 75 injured.—Tokyo, July 15.