MINERS INCLUDED.
RATES OF BENEFIT.
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)] WELLINGTON, this day. The rates of benefit provided in tho bill for miners -who qualified are: For an unmarried man, £1 10/; for a mar* ried man and wife, £2, with 10/ additio* for each child, reaching a nnximum benefit at £4 10/ a week. Miners' widows will receive 17/6. Miners who have contracted miners' phthisis, and have thereby become permanently and seriously incapacitated, or have oontracted an occupational disease and are permanently and totally incapa- | citatea for work will qualify for th* J miners' benefit.
The residential qualification is flat they must have been employed in New Zealand as miners for not less tlian two and a half years, aod have resided IB Xew Zealand for at least five year* immediately prior to the date of application. „ . .. - Funeral expense* «■ the death of * person who has received a miners benefit L. r he paid by the commission.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 9
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