COMPENSATION AGREEMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18585, 18 December 1923, Page 7

COMPENSATION AGREEMENT

' c'i r -"--^ycb2''-£.,'l''-Sl--'iw>j'ZTt :■ss:&'& •OV'.V" ,< ' COUNTY WORKER'S > INJURY. -;■ —- t•' - A settlement of a compensation claim . was announced in the Arbitration Court, j yesterday.' The oase -was one, in which .: Clarence Akast (Mr. E. Inder, . instructed; : . by Mr. W. P. Hopkins* of Aucldwid), a labourer, -of Wliaagarei, | sought to re- g; cover * compensation from 'a the -^Ttongwc|-^ t County Council (Mr. Word) instated, by Messrs. Peak and Kirker, Auckland, agents for '•. Rishworth and -; ■, Harrison* . Whangarei), 1 for ; injuries sustained ur an explosion at Whaveora s; quarry on May flff 5 1922. The Court m October found that, although the steCutoiy penodhad £ elapsed, , plaintiff was entitled to proceed ■with the claim. A motion to set a®®® this ' interim judgment was disallowed by the Court last Tuesday, but in tb» meantime a settlement of the claim was arrived at between the parties. , . Mr. Inder said €he case had bwm set-' - tled, subject to plumtiff;'of ; £260 as comthe payment to plaintiff of £28© as compensation and £45 , for : incidental; ex- : . ■ censes to cover all witnesses and -< travelling • expense*. .The: «n°nnt of; compensation was assessed on €he . testimony,, of defendant's medical witness**. _ 7 After^formal - evidence • for * plaintiff • mo. been heardlreDpecting the exfamt of, his iniurWtfvin4ltho) amount of hill earnings,, . , the Court found in plaintißs favour for ■_>, the amount agreed upon by the parties. < ;