WORKERS' INJURIES.
LIABILITY OF PROPERTY OWNER. A question was raised recently as to the liability of the owner of a property for compensation to a workman injured during H'he performance of bis work, undertaken at. a private house, or for a private employer. "There is no doubt but that the owner or principal is liable, if the work ie of a hazardous nature," said the Secretary for Labour (Mr. F. VV. Rowley), in answer to a query by a. "Dominion" reporter. "These hazardous occupations are defined by the Workers' Compensation Act of 1922, and are:—Mining, quarrying, excavation, the cutting of standing timber and scrub, clearing lands of stumps or scrub, erection or demolition of any building or structure, manufacture or ifk£ of any explosive, the charge or use of any machinery in motion and driven by steam or other mechanical power, the driving of any vehicle drawn or propelled by horsepower or mechanical power, domestic service in which the employment or engagement is for a period of not less than three days, any occupation in which a worker incurs a risk of falling any distance exceeding 12ft. if the injury or "death of the worker rcsiilts from euch a fall."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 10
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200WORKERS' INJURIES. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 10
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