VALUE OF LIMBS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18550, 27 November 1925, Page 9

VALUE OF LIMBS.

■■■ -■ - T 4 WORKERS' (raov oo» on rffllMiWMiWp4', -/% SYDNEY, JJoremosr 0*; g The Workers' Ccrejiunsiluis Iflfc *' drastic measure which *fil te Parliament shortly, reveals, iiuilliiawlfe, '*. the strange method of «f calculation of the eompeasatiM jpf; >* able' by an employer in respect of *» ; employee's injuries. If reveals «|s» an > innovation, which provides thai *i fp* i ployee shall be entitled to cswnonistion. if he is injured on his -way-ti© or ~ from his place of employment In the value that upteeeo'eslnntsa; limbs under the BiD, then is nntsjejlnelike level of calculation which amntntly will preclude the eonrU fronf'*»W*jE all things into eonaideraton, jestof the little finger, middle lager, •* ring finger, js assessed, for exssjfe, at „ £ll2 10s. Here one see* an exaetita&e • which brings the loss down ove* t» ." precise shillings. This is shows agaJK - in the assessment of the less of **• lower part of a leg, which is Tilnei a*. £562 10s, and of the loss of **pnts of a thumb, whieh, as in ike ess* of a little finger, is valued at Cl* 19*. Even these sums mar net eosftponsato > a man adequately for bis injuries, bat to reduce the basis'to precise .'shiHiasji appears at least a little novel. They were not nearly as exact as tin* in Samuel Butler's land of Erewhon, where every crime bad its money price, and where, for renderinf » 'sun opaf/ -, for instance, an oifender the injured one 60s, anf forjtanyag j him of the use of bis ns£sr,la«t XslsbiS ,- might have been cheap in those tors, . bat they did not at least make «wit calculations with the same es*etlts4t> ' as under this Bill, and assess 'an n**> fortunate man's deafness at, .say. ss■ i 10s 6§d. They let it go •?«.*.{ *