COMPENSATION CLAIM FAILS
USE OF UNAUTHORISED PLACE. GAS WORKER’S INJURY. (By Ti-logi-aph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 8. A compensation claim failed in the Arbitration Court to-day because the plaintiff incurred ail injury not out of his employment, but through added danger by making use of a place he was not authorised to use, and neglected the place provided by tire company. The defendant was the Wellington Gas Company and the plaintiff Michael Patrick Garry. Gerry fell into a hole in what the manager said was the ventilating end of n- tunnel and a dangerous place. No one had any right to be there at all. Plaintiff claimed that be went there for his coat and two sacks to put into the retort house to dry. The Court held that he had no right to leave anything where he did.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 November 1933, Page 7
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