VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 7

VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE

CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION. PRIVY COUNCIL RESERVES DECISION By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, July 13. The Privy Council reserved its judgment in the case of Brooker versus Borth (.New Zealand). It is explained from Wellington that a number of applications were made under the Workers’ Compensation Act in respect to persons killed or injured in the Hawke’s Bay earthquake. Certain cases representative of the whole were, by arrangement amongst the parties concerned, brought before the New Zealand Court of Appeal, which decided that the injuries sustained by workers or the deaths of workers did not arise in the course of their employment and that claims for compensation did not lie. To provide the necessary funds for an appeal to the Privy Council an application was made for assistance out of the Earthquake Relief Fund, and the central committee made a sum available for the purpose. The committee was actuated by the consideration that if compensation could be obtained by means of the appeal there would be a saving to the fund as it would be relieved of a portion of the burden of providing for persons Injured or the dependents of persons injured or killed. The costs provided are to be refunded from any moneys recovered if the appeal is successful.