CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. The Arbitration Court to-day gave its decision in a claim under the Workers' Compensation Act, in which John Joseph Dickson claimed £1 a week from the Talisman Consolidated Goldmining Company for injuries received while working in respondent’s mine as one of a party of contractors. After reviewing the judgment in various cases at some length, the Court held that it was impossible for them to hold that the claimant was not an independent contractor, and within the decision of this Court in Smith v. Clark. For the reasons stated in that case, he was not within the Act. If this class of workmen were to be brought within the Act it must be by distinct legislative enactment, and the statute did not as it now stood do this. Judgment must therefore be for the respondent with £7 7s costs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 833, 6 March 1903, Page 2
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148CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 833, 6 March 1903, Page 2
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