AN INJURED EYE
CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION
(By Telegraph.—Pres* Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. In the Arbitration Court a claim was made by Maxwell Louis Pemin against John Graham, of Stokes Valley, for £325 compensation and expenses in respect to injury to his eye through being struck by a piece of gorse while clearing a section for defendant. It was stated that the parties were on good terms, but unable to agree over the amount of compensation. Mr Justice Frazer remarked that both were very lucky. Corse prickles were very jseptie and in the majority of cases such an injury would cause the joss of the eye. lie awarded £6B in addition to £2O already paid, and in case rnv further trouble developed, which from the doctor’s evidence was not likely, a suspensory award of an additional Id a week was made.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 February 1929, Page 5
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140AN INJURED EYE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 February 1929, Page 5
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