No Compensation For Deafness
(New Zealand Press Association*
AUCKLAND, August 28.
Legislature should decide whether to follow the more advanced industrial compensation legislation of New South Wales, Judge A. P. Blair says in a Compensation Court decision.
In a case brought before the court at Auckland the plaintiff, Alfred Leopold Beasley, a railway employee, of Auckland, was unable to bring his case within the confines of the Act, Judge Blair said.
Accordingly the Court found for the defendant, the Attorney-General, appearing on behalf of the Railways. Judge Blair said the plaintiff had, since. 1947, been working at the Otahuhu workshop of the Railways Department It was conceded by the defendant that the nature of the job caused the plaintiff to
contract boilermaker’s deafness.
Judge Blair said that even if he held that the worker was suffering from a partial incapacity within the meaning of the section, the worker’s claim was frustrated by the absence in the Act of any means whereby compensation for his loss could be assessed.
Judge Blair said that under similar legislation in New South Wales a worker had the right to compensation to the full extent of his loss of hearing at the date of his claim.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31150, 29 August 1966, Page 12
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