COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENT
Last year a railway employee named W. J. Mathers lost his eyesight in a blasting accident at Egmont quarry. The Department at the time paid him the statutory £750 compensation, and aleo a further £250. Later the case came before Parliament on a petition from tho A.S.R.S., and the Railways Committee recommended it for the favourable consideration of the Government. The injured man had a family of nine, the youngest not 14 y«ars of age, and the severity) of his injury and his family circumstances were oonisidored a warrant for generous treatment. The Government has Bince had the claim under consideration, desiring, if possible, to establish Mathers in some business which his family could conduct and which. would provide them with a livelihood. Mathers recently decided to purohaso a'house and confectionery business in Wanganui East. To enable him to do this the Government has made him two loans, each of £570 (one from the Advances to Settlers and tho other as a special second mortgage), and has ako made a further grant of £500 compensation.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 5
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178COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 5
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