MILL FATALITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23206, 28 November 1938, Page 13

MILL FATALITY

£973 COMPENSATION AWARD ORDER AS TO,DISTRIBUTION [by telegraph—own correspondent] JtOTORUA. Saturday In a reserved judgment delivered, at Rotorua, the Arbitration Court ■ granted £936, together with medical and funeral expenses, £37, on thp liasis of one-third" "to the wjdo\v, Ivv MdLocklan. 0 f Te Puke, and the remaining two-thirds between her son Robert Sidney McLocklan and two children of a Maori woman, against Mahommed Firoz Khan, a sawnuUer. The award was made as compensation for the death of Robert McLocklan, who was killed while working at Khan's mill at Oruanui on January 21, 1937. . ... . One of the mam points at issue when the case was heard yesterday was whether the two children of the Maori woman were actually the children of McLocklan, who had married Ivy Collett at Te Teko in 1932 and shortly after separated from her and had- not subsequently contributed to her or her infant's support. Mr. Justice O'Regan stated that the Court had had no difficulty in reaching the opinion that there was no doubt that McLocklan had been the father of the two Maori chitdren andconsequently they could be held to be totally dependent upon McLocklan and must share in the apportionment of the compensation allowed.