ARBITRATION COURT
COMPENSATION CASE
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
WELLINGTON, This Day.
In the Arbitration Court, Herbert D. Jamieson, a waterside worker, claimed compensation from .the New Zealand Shipping Company. Plaintiff alleged that while working as a wharf labourer in May, 1928, in the employment of the company he was picking up a lanyard when he was struck in the small of the back by the ball of a crane, and again when lying down. He sustained permanent'disability and had been totally incapacitated. The company had paid £233 12s 4d equal to 08' weeks' pay. Plaintiff claimed an additional amount land costs*
Defendants denied that there was permanent incapacity. The Court allowed £75 10s 4d being half the fulJ compensation for nine months, and £l2 12s expenses.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 March 1930, Page 5
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125ARBITRATION COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 March 1930, Page 5
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