THAT COMPENSATION ACT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 163, 22 July 1901, Page 3

THAT COMPENSATION ACT.

(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir,, —I see Messieurs the opponents of the Workmen's Compensation for Accidents Act are still pegging away. It is an ill wind that blows nobody sond i the accident insurant 1 .? Companies should be reamgir a harvest. I don’t grudge it them, but I think it ought to he the Government office who should get the money, because, as I expect they will reap a largo profit oven out of present small premiums, and the Government’s profit goes to the policy-holders, they will naturally get it back next year. Anyhow, if it is going to make the eternal havoc some people think, the Government can stand the loss better than'the companies. A legal friend' informs me that instead of Dick Seddon or Mr Longdill being the father of the Act, it has been in forco in England since 1897, and to show that it could not have created so very much blue ruin, the benefit of its provisions was extended to agricultural laborers by a. further Act passed last year.—l am, etc., Sine Qua Non.

The little black and tan terrier which some Auckland members ot the “.Fighting Fifth ” commandeered from a bystander as they sailed away from the Auckland Wharf, leaving the owner wildly gesticulating after his lost pet, proved a mascotte’jfsays the New Zealand Times.) It followed the fortunes of the men right through the campaign, being specially attached to the Fifth New Zealand Battery, which was formed at Marandallas from the Fifth Contingent, being made up principally of Auckland boys. The terrier was at one time a prisoner, and was wounded on another occasion.