WAR INJURIES
NEW COMPENSATION METHOD PROPOSED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 30. The establishment of a Compensation Court in each of the four main centres of New Zealand to take the place of the pensions boards is part of a scheme which is to be urged on the Government by the conference in Wellington of former servicemen’s organisations. The scheme, which was decided on by the conference to-day, calls for the Pensions Act to be repealed and a new War Compensation Act to be substituted. The conference held that the seven years of operation of the present act conclusively proved that it was inadequate to compensate justly servicemen for war injuries. The proposed new act would provide for a Compensation Court, consisting of a Judge of the Supreme Court or a senior magistrate and two assessors, one of whom would be the appointee of the Government and the other of servicemen’s associations. Appeal courts would be established, and 100 per cent, disability would be assessed at the minimum basic wage, plus any cost of living bonuses, free of tax. War widows’ compensation would be assessed at the same rate.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1946, Page 4
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