RELIEF WORKER’S DEATH
£6OO COMPENSATION AWARD
borough council his employer. ' ' ' '• • . ' JUDGMENT AGAINST RANGIORA. By Triesraph.— Pwm Association. Christchurch, Last Night A claim for compensation for the-death of a relief worker succeeded in the Supreme Court at Christchurch' to-day.. The plaintiff was awarded compensation £591 Is 4d, funeral and medical expenses £23 18s and costs £l5 15s, to be paid by the Rangiora Borough Councfil.-,, His Honour found that there was no z doubt O’Neill was killed by an accident arising in the course of his employment so the body which was his. employer was liable. On the question of who was O’Neill’s employer, his Honour said O’Neill was certainly in the employ, of the Rangiora Borough Council. It had applied for an unemployment relief grant and was expending it as authorised by the Finance Act Tile evidence showed that the understanding all through was that the council was employing the men, the power board merely finding work without accepting responsibility.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1932, Page 7
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