Tansey v Renown Collieries Limited - [1945] NZLR 568

Workers' Compensation — Liability for Compensation — Fireman-deputy in Coal-mine — Remuneration in Excess of £400 a Year — Substantial Employment — Timbering, Shot-firing, and Coal-face Dusting — Whether "employed by way of manual labour" — "Worker" — "Manual labour" — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, s 2 — Coal-mines Act, 1925, ss 61, 62 — Coal-mines Regulations, 1939 (Serial No 1939/94), Regs 94–103.