COMPENSATION REFUSED.
GARDENER SUES DOCTOR. EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE ACT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] DUNEDIN. Tuesday. The Arbitration Court was asked to decide in a compensation claim whether a gardener employed by a medical man was entitled to claim compensation within tho meaning of the Act, if he received an injury while engaged in that work. Plaintiff alleged that while _ working in defendant's gard.en he received personable injuries and was unable to carry on his occupation for two months. He claimed for loss of wages. Mr. Justice Frazer said it was difficult to give a precise meaning of the word "work" in the Act, but one would never say a doctor was carrying on tho work of a gardener, nor was he a nurseryman. The Act did not apply to people working about a man's house or ground. Judgment was given for defendant.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20255, 15 May 1929, Page 16
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