OF INTEREST TO EMPLOYERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13462, 29 June 1907, Page 2

OF INTEREST TO EMPLOYERS.

.• Per .Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 29., Twopointlsf of interest to employers of labour were decided in a judgment delivered by : tne Arbitration Court to3ay oh'^i claim' frfr compensation by Jloberi Russell against the* New Zealand Loan flind Mercantile Agency Company. It was urged by the defence that the claim for compensation had not been made within three months after the occurrence of the accident, and that the claimant was bound by a settlement Cor which fie gave receipts. - Mr Justice Sims, in his judgment, agreed that the claim was made 1 too late, but he railed that the circumstances of the <&se debarred Tespondent *i xoiri raising defence, by reason of the fact that before the statutory time, for making a claim had expired the parties had. agreed that there was a statutory liability on respondent to pay compensation.' Two payments were made to cLaimant f bef ore the statutory three, months had{ elapsed. With regard to 1 the second defence the Court was nqt satisfied thst ..claimant knew the -effect of the documents he signed. Claimant was accordingly allowed £1 per weekfrom th« l^th November last.