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1930. NEW ZEALAND.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION. REPORT OF COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO AND REPORT UPON THE STATUTES RELATING TO COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS TO WORKERS.

Laid on the Table by Leave of the House.

COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO AND REPORT UPON THE STATUTES RELATING TO COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS TO WORKERS. Bledisloe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Sydney George Smith, Esquire, of New Plymouth, M.P. ; Hubert Thomas Armstrong, Esquire, of Christchurch, M.P. ; George Robert Sykes, Esquire, of Masterton, M.P. ; James Thomas llogan, Esquire, of Wanganui, M.P. ; James Havelock Jerram, Esquire, of Wellington, State Fire Insurance General Manager; Arthur Seed, Esquire, of Wellington, Secretary; George James Augustus Kerruish, Esquire, of Wellington, Insurance Manager ; Thomas Bloodworth, Esquire, of Auckland, Secretary; and Walter Newton, Esquire, of Wellington, Secretary of Labour : Greeting. Whereas legislation has been proposed for the purpose of altering or amending the statutes relating to compensation for accidents to workers, and it is expedient that inquiry should be made into the necessity or expediency of any such legislation, and generally into the working of the Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, and the Workers' Compensation Amendment Act, 1926 : Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said Sydney George Smith, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, George Robert Sykes, James Thomas llogan, James Havelock Jerram, Arthur Seed, George James Augustus Kerruish, Thomas Bloodworth, and Walter Newton, to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the working of the aforesaid statutes and the sufficiency and adequacy thereof, and into the necessity or expediency of legislation for the purpose of altering or amending the existing law,

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