COMPENSATION COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 August 1927, Page 3

COMPENSATION COURT.

A WAXERSIDERS’ C-LAIAI. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 25. A lump of coal failing from a basket wliii’i© the steamer Waitemaha was being unloaded at Lyttelton- on July 29, 1926, .struck a- labourer named Ellis Barraclough. It injued Iris back and fractured a rib, and he lias been unable to do any work since. The Union Steam Ship Company, owner of the vessel, paid him compensation to March 6 last, hut hast refused .to pay any more. Before- the Arbitration Court to-day, Barraclough claimed further compensation.

The Judge .said that neurasthenia was a real disease, but was a mental, not a physical one. Barraclough was .suffering pain at the time of the accident, but no actual pain now, but his nerves, continued causing telegraphic messages from his body to bis brain. The Judge advised him to get out of Ms mind that lie had any physical trouble.

The court awarded £122 compensation as for wages for over four and a half months.

Although no death occurred in the private maternity home that was recently closed by the Public Health Department for a week, one of the patients that were removed died in the Christchurch Hospital, and the life of another was saved only by blood transfusion (states a Press Association message from Cirri stohur oh).