CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.
[BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CIIRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Arbitration Court to-day gave Judgment for the Railway Department m a claim for compensation at the rate of £1 3s 6d a week, made by Peter Potonari, who alleged that by an accident at the harbour at Lyttelton, when lauding sewerage steel pipes in October, 1908, the slings had slipped, and serious hernia, was caused to claimant. The evidence showed a hernia had been contracted in 1904, and that claimant made no complaint at the time of the accident that hernia had been caused by it. The first hernia had necessitated Poto-nai-i's frequent absence from work, and it had not been shown that the existing hernia had been aggravated by anything occurring on the day of the accident. Costs were not asked for.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 8
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134CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 8
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