COMPENSATION AWARD
Council Employee’s Death WIDOW GIVEN £1035 By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, August 18. A compensation award of £1035 was made by the Arbitration Court to-day to a widow named Viva Johnson against the Hauraki County Council. Her husband, while motorcycling late at night, collided with a cow on the road and was killed. He had been consulting a bus proprietor about the traffic conditions and also about the danger caused by cattle wandering on the roads. The County Council contended that, as the accident happened on a Sunday, it did not arise out of Johnson’s employment, particularly as after attending to traffic matters he had gone to a football match and a dance. Mr. Justice Frazer said that 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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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 12
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156COMPENSATION AWARD Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 12
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