CLAIM FOR WALKING TIME DISMISSED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 18

CLAIM FOR WALKING TIME DISMISSED

Decision For Rivers Board Dominion Special Service. Napier. July 28. Holding that there had been a conveyance and that the cost of the conveyance had been paid to the meu at the rate of eightpence a day tr man, Mr. J. Miller, S.M., entered judgment for defendant, the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board, in the Magistrate’s Court today. when E. J. McNab, labourer, Hastings, claimed from the board £4O/3/2, which the statement of claim alleged was the sum he was entitled to receive as payment for time in travelling to and from Work for a period of 79 days. Mr. 11. S. Morrison appeared for plaintiff and Mr. H. B. Lusk for the hoard. Mr. Lusk said the claim appeared to bo that although there was a conveyance and the meu wore getting an amount paid by Hie rivers board they were able to go 'behind it and ask. for walking allowances. Witnesses had suggested that conveyances should leave from central positions, such as the post office. It was not the distance from the worker’s dwelling that was to be charged for but the distance from the centres.