HURT IN QUARRY ACCIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18521, 4 October 1923, Page 11

HURT IN QUARRY ACCIDENT.

CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.

A legal point as to whether a claim for compensation could be : brought after a period of six montihs . had > elapsed was considered yesterday by the, Arbitration Court, Mr. Justice Frazer presiding.- The Court was asked to give a decision an to whether the- delay- was ■■ attributable to mistake ror to some other ; reasonable cause within the meaning of the .Workers' Compensation Act. .. '.. ';%■■-■. . . ;,';, >■'..', /The plaintiff in the action .out of which the'point arose was Clarence Akast' (Mr. Inder), a young labourer 'of WJiangarei, the defendants ' being the Whangarei County Council (Mr. -Luxfdrd).'"- Plaintiff sustained injury in ah explosion at Whareora. Quarry, in May, 1922. It was alleged that as a result of -the accident he had lost the. use of a finger-.on his right hand, had had his left thigh broken and the muscles of ■ his right arm weakened. The thigh-bone, it was- stated, had knit one inch short in < setting. Plaintiff claimed compensation for 53 weeks at £3 3s 2d a week, and £2 a week, being 58 per cent, of the difference between wihat he, was formerly earning, and: what he contended he was now capable of earning, for a period of six years. As an alternative claim, he sought..a lump sum settlement; -.';■' '

The Court reserved its decision.