COMPENSATION GRANTED
A SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT* Per Press Association. WANGANUI, August 29. •At the Supreme Court to-day & jury gave judgment in the case in which Charles Gibbons claimed £592 from Walpole and Paterson, building Mmiraetons for injuries alleged to hare bean received as the result of an accident due to the ooliap&o of scaffolding. The plaintiff alleged that a piece of matai timber had been used, and that it broke when the extra weight of a bi& rafter came oh to it. The defence denied that there bad been any negligence in erecting the scaffolding or that any matai bad been used. The jury awarded £270 compensation, in addition do the amount paid under the Workers* Compensation Act.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10992, 30 August 1921, Page 6
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