BREACH OF REGULATIONS
'COMPENSATION CLAIM PAILS. CD A L WORKER VS INJURY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WESTPORT, June 8. A worker’s compensation ease decided in the Court, of Arbitration to-day is believed to bo the first of its kind to come up for judicial consideration in New Zealand. 'Tlie plaintiff Hinde lost his loft arm as a result of falling when he alighted from a rake of trucks provided by the defendant Westport Stockton Coal Mining Company for the purpose of conveying men to and from work. It was admitted the men were within the protection of the Workers’ Compensation Act while being conveyed by the company. The company submitted that Hinde was not entitled to succeed because he committed a breach of a regulation of the Coal (Mines Act of 1923 which forbids men to board or alight from workers’ trains or to ride on the buffers while in motion. After hearing the evidence and the legal argument the court held that there had been a breach of regulations and dismissed the claim. The company did not ask for costs.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 9 June 1931, Page 5
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180BREACH OF REGULATIONS Hawera Star, Volume LI, 9 June 1931, Page 5
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