INJURY TO HAND
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. (Per United -Press . Association.) WELLINGTON, June 20. Damages amounting to £l5O were assessed by Mr Justice Blair in favour of Eileen Marie Leniston, of Wellington, in respect of injuries suffered by her in April, 1033, in the course of her employment at Woolworths (New Zealand). Ltd., the defendant company. ’ Plaintiff was filling a teapot from an urn of boiling water, and owing to the tap being faulty she scalded her left hand. Dermatitis followed, and the plaintiff had been unable to work practically ever since. > * ’ - : The medical evidence was that her disability would last for some months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22294, 21 June 1934, Page 8
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