ACCIDENTS IN THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND
INSURANCE-' SCHEME SUGGESTED. The Petono District High School Committee has passed the following- resolution :~'"l'hat owing to Leslie Manning (a pupil at. the school) breaking his log through 110 fault ot' his own, in the playgiound during' school hours, the committo wishes to know whother the Wellington Education Board would assist the parents of the child by paying the medical expenses incurred at Wellington Hospital." . failing assistance in this direction, the comraitteo recomends that the board ehould communicate with the Minister of Education, anil ask him to set aside a sum of money as an annual allowance for the inauguration, of a school children's accident fund, and to point out that as employers are liable for accidents to employers, so the Government should be responsible to the Education Board for any expense tlmt .may be incurred through the accident to a child during school hours on school premises, tho child being at work (educationally) in the same mannet' as the worker is industrially.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 22 May 1916, Page 3
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168ACCIDENTS IN THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 22 May 1916, Page 3
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