INJURED WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 143, 13 March 1931, Page 9

INJURED WORKERS

Compensation Claims TUNNELLING ACCIDENT The Arbitration Court was occupied yesterday in hearing claims for compensation for accidents. Mr. Justice Frazer presided, and had with him as assessors Mr. W. Cecil Prime (for the employers) and Mr. A. L, Monteith (for the workers). James Henry Morgan, of Petone, was allowed £134 compensation, in addition to £56 already paid to him, from the Public Works Department for an accident which occurred on May 9, 1930, while he was employed in the Tawa Flat tunnel. While assisting to concrete the arch of the tunnel he' struck his left leg against a concrete truck, and claimed that he had since been totally disabled from workMcCullough Fleck claimed compensation for an injury received v° her right wrist on August 28, 1928, by slipping while employed on the staff ot Porirna Mental Hospital. Petitiouer bad been paid full salary to August 1, 1929, and two-thirds salary from the latter date to December 31, 1930. She claimed a weekly payment of £l/13/4 from the date of the last payment until the hearing of the case. His Honour pointed out that the Mental Hospitals'Department had certainly been generous to plaintiff in the early part -of her disability. He said this was a case in which it was not possible to go on the usual schedule. T.uc court had decided to consider that plaintiff was entitled to be allowed 314 per cent, total disability for the remainder of ths period of liability, 183 weeks. Judgment would be for £lO2/12/6, being £B7 5/- for the 183 weeks, and £l5/i/6 for weekly compensation, from the date of the last payment to the present time. Ten guineas costs were allowed, and £2 2/- for medical witnesses. In both cases Air P. J. O’Regan appeared for petititioner, and Mr. J. Preudeville, Crown Solicitor, for the Crown.