COMPENSATION CASES.
AWARDS AT NEW PLYMOUTH (BY XELEGBAPH PBESS ASSOCIATION.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct, 9. In the Supreme Court on September 11 Mr. Justice Reed gave judgment in favour ol John Hoskin, a water si der, who sued the New Plymouth Shipping Company for damages caused by an accident when unloading slag from the ship Enton. The damages have now been assessed, -special at £399 and generl at £250, less amount received as compensation under the "Workers' Compensation Act. The Arbitration? Court has also given its reserved judgment in the petition Carlson v. the King. The plaintiff claimed compensation lor an injury received while working on public works at Tahora which resulted in the loss of the sight of one eye. The Crown admitted liability, but the question at issue was whether compensation should run'from the date of the accident or the date when the incapacity commenced, the loss of sight not occurring till, six weeks after the accident. The court found that payments are to date from the time at which the incapacity commenced.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 October 1926, Page 5
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