COMPENSATION SOUGHT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 151, 28 June 1934, Page 5

COMPENSATION SOUGHT

WOMAN’S CLAIM FAILS. MENTAL INJURY FROM -’QUAKE. ( Per Press Association ). WELLINGTON, June 27. The question whether the Hawke’s Bay earthquake of February 3, 1931, was responsible for the subsequent mental derangement of a woman who was employed at the Napier Hospital when part of the building was shaken down, was the basis of a claim for compensation by her from the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board in the Arbitration Court at Wellington to-day. Mr. Justice Blair presided, and with him were Mr. W. Cecil Prince and Mr. A. L. Monteith. . . An allied point was whether, if the earthquake did in fact bring on her mental instability, such injury actually arose out of plaintiff s work, or whether she would have received mental damage if she had been off duty at the t’mo, . _ After evidence for plaintiff had been hoard, she was non-suited, the Court holding that she bad not suffered injury arising directly out or ner employment. t . At the suggestion of counsel, His Honour requested that plaintiff’s name be not made public, in view of the fact that she had been an inmate of Porirua Mental Hospital.