Heath v Waihi Gold-Mining Company Limited - [1935] NZLR 103

Workers' Compensation — Slight Abrasion of Skin without Inconvenience — Employer's Notice requiring Report for Treatment of Accident, however slight — Delay in reporting until Knee inflamed — Incapacity in consequence of Septic Condition — Possibility of arresting or lessening Infective Process if Notice complied with at earliest Opportunity — Bona fide Belief that Injury trivial — Whether Failure to give Notice earlier occasioned by Reasonable Cause — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, s 26 (2).