DAMAGES AWARDED
A WATERFRONT ACCIDENT By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, August 17. Damages amounting to £472 were claimed in the Supreme Court to-day from Gann..way and Co., stevedores, by Herbert Turner, a watersider, who claimed that an accident in which he had his right leg crushed was caused through negligence on the part of employees of the defendant company. Turner, in evidence, said that he had had four accidents while working on the waterfront, but the last was in no way connected with the previous ones. Counsel stated that the defence would be that the average earnings by Turner and watersiders generally were considerably less than the estimate in the claim for damages. His Honour said that the evidence was not very satisfactory but he had come to the conclusion that £2/15/- a week was a fair amount to allow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19571, 18 August 1933, Page 6
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139DAMAGES AWARDED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19571, 18 August 1933, Page 6
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