MAN'S WORKING LIFE
PROBLEM FOR ARBITRATION COURT. “We have always hesitated to attempt to fix the duration of a man’s working life. I don’t know that we have any authority to do so, except in cases where a man before an accident has been suffering from disease find tlie medical evidence is that his life will be only two or three years.” This observation was made in the Arbitration Court at Auckland by Mr Justice Frazer in apportioning compensation in a case that concerned a labourer who was 68 years of age. It was suggested that the man had little work in front of him, even if he were in normal health. In cases such as he had illustrated, said His Honour, the court, could always say that the duration of a man’s working life would be three years, and •at the end of that time he would be worse off. The suggestion that i iie plaintiff in the present action had reached the end of his working days recalled to his mind the case of a wharf labourer at Wellington, who toiled till he was 96. He was of unusual extraction, his parents being Irish on one side and Dutch Boer on the other, and that possibly accounted for bis physical ability at such an advanced age. In any case, there were men at 90 doing work that one would imagine would be well beyond their years.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10954, 1 October 1928, Page 3
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238MAN'S WORKING LIFE Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10954, 1 October 1928, Page 3
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