ARBITRATION COURT.
• r — _» [United Pbess *Assoc!lATion.] _ Dunedin, Feb 5. _ Before the Arbitration Gourfc this morning H. Marsh and others (37 all told) for taking part in a strike at Kaitangata on August 10 last, were grouped together and fined £30 each man- being responsible for the fine. The Arbitration Court was. asked to ; da.y to decide an appeal by John -Wil-. : son against the decision of rMr Mc^ Ehnis, S;,'M., in :*-a case under.*,the pro-, visions of .the Workers' ; Compensation for Accidents Actj 1908. in ,which J. Honry Mervyn claimed- -to*': recover from Wilson £200 as compensation for injury sustained by being frostbitten while snow raking on appellant's farm at Lauder on July llth. - The ; Magistrate had .decided that the injury sustained was an accident and' awarded- -8150 compensation. • Theappear.was^based bh; the ground that; the injury' was/not an' accident. IThe Court reserved, its decision. ■'.--'■'
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12458, 6 February 1909, Page 3
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144ARBITRATION COURT. Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12458, 6 February 1909, Page 3
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