ACCIDENT CLAIM

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 15

ACCIDENT CLAIM

INJURED IN DUNCE HOUR. EMPLOYERS HELD IJA.CT.Hi, Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 21. If an errand hoy delivers and receives parcels during his luncheon hour and meets with an accident while on his way .back to a shop, is he entitled to compensation from his employer for an injury sustained during the course of his employment P This was one of the questions put to the Arbitration Court at New Plymouth to-day when Arthur Ronald Prentice, aged 16 years, who was seriously injured as the ’result of a collision with P. J. Flanagan's motor-car in Devon street some months ago, sued his employers, J. Morey and Sons, for compensation. WHAT AMOUNT P The other question was the amount of compensation to be awarded, the full amount of £750 allowed by the Act being claimed. On the day of the aocident Prentice was employed by Morey and Sons. On his way home to lunoh he had delivered two paroels, and had collected another to be returned to the shop. He had the pared with him when lie collided, with a motor-car as the result of which he was seriously injured. EMPLOYERS LIABLE. The court held that the injuries had been sustained by the boy in course of hia employment, but said that it was too soon yet to decide haw far the boy would be incapacitated. The claim would be met by allowing full wages while he was incapacitated, and an order was made for the payment of 11s 8d per week from the date of the accident, future payments to be at the same rate until the case was reviewed fay the court.