WATERSIDER INJURED
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. ESTIMATION OF WAGES. (Per Press Association.-— Copyright-) WELLINGTON, This Day. Damages amounting to £472 12/- were claimed in the Supreme Court yesterday from Gannaway and Company, stevedores, by Herbert Turner, a waterside worker, who alleged that an accident in which his right leg was crushed was caused through negligence on the part of employees of defendant company. Plaintiff, in evidence, said he had had four accidents while working on the waterfront, but the last was in no way connected with the previous ones. Counsel stated that the defence would be that the average earnings by Turner and watersiders generally were considerably less than the estimate in the claim for damages. Plaintiff was awarded £1;":' 4/-, including £SO as general damages. His Honour said the evidence was not very satisfactory, but he had come to the conclusion that £2 15/- a week was a. fair amount to allow.
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Northern Advocate, 18 August 1933, Page 7
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