HARDSHIP CAUSED.
SMALL COMPENSATION. (By Telegraph.—Own. Correspondent.) COROMANDEL, Tuesday. An instance of the need for an amendment to the Workers' Compensation Act was considered at a meeting of the Coromandel County Council yesterday. It was stated that a man in the emplov of the county met with an accident in September, 1932, which totally incapacitated him for life. Normally, this man would have been earning up to £6 weekly and would have received compensation accordingly. At the time of his accident ho was on relief work earning a small weekly wage, and consequently his compensation was only a very small proportion of that _ wlnc.i would have been paid in normal times.
The worker had received £153 10/ in full settlement of compensation, and as it would be some years before lie could qualify for a pension and it was impossible for him to do any more manual work, he would naturally become a burden on someone. Members of the council considered this was not the intention of the Act.
•Tlifl council dccidcd to bring the matter before Mr. A. M.; Samuel, M.P., in an endeavour to remedy an obvious anomaly in th.a Act. ™
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 68, 21 March 1934, Page 11
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