MAN KILLED
WHILE PROCEEDING TO WORK CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION (By Telegraph—Press Association) PALMERSTON N., This Day. The Arbitration Court is hearing a claim for £IOOO made by Lilian Evelyn Geange, of Feilding, against Richard Burn and John Neiison, contractors and builders, of Feilding. It is claimed by plaintiff that while proceeding on a motor cycle to defendants' workshop in accordance with their orders, her husband was struck by a train engine and fatally injured, and that the accident arose in the course of his employment. Defendants contend that the accident did not happen in the course of employment.
A nonsuit point raised by the defence dismissed by the Bench, who held that "travelling to the factory was part of his work. Judgment was given for plaintiff for the full amount and costs.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 April 1930, Page 5
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132MAN KILLED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 April 1930, Page 5
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