SEAMEN AND WAR WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 54, 4 March 1918, Page 4

SEAMEN AND WAR WORK

COMPENSATION SCHEME AR- ; RANGED.

STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF

MARINE.

(DsillD PBBSS ISSOOIATIOH.i

* p; * TOTLDWITON, This Day. lengthy negotiations., the Hon. (Minister of Marine) announced : that he is able to make public the of . a s eheme. under which all seamen: who "run a war risk on our traiUports and other vessels engaged in will be covered" against losses due, to enemy agency and their dependents I-jvill ;be._ c -safeguarded case , of their qa&ablement.. ; •. : , . ; j£s a& as?b how the schetne -work\~23x "Wilford says: —"I" can t3yt6 the example of ""seamen earning £lB a-month. In the... event -of his " r tEe&th, his wife "will deceive, until her dfeth;!. or : until she fiiinum -and one.twenty-fourth of his pay -in • respect of each.-.child. ; There is 1 also compensation for-lossof' effects and li-Karei'information of an instance in yrhichvan : -officer of a New Zealand-ves--feelwhich -was. lost off Xizzard Point (Cornwall) through enemy action received 'as compensation, under the scheme, £SO for loss .of effects. This.,.will show that - 1 most -of the have" been gone .' into' thoroughly under the British scheme.*;.. „ : .v . . . ' : : vifijr "W-ilford adds 'that he has underta-ken-'that if any dependents of' those who werelost in the Aparima put in claims ill he will forward them authorities in England in order • th&t' compensation may be paid under the scheme as. outlined.