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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1925, Page 4

■WORKERS’ COMPKN'SATION. SYDNEY, Xov. 10. The ’Workers' Compensation Bill, a drastic measure, which v ill he hefore Pa.il i.Miieut shortly, reveals, incidentally. the strange method of departmental calculation of the compensation payable by an employer in respect ol an employee's injuries. It reveals also mi innovation-, uhich provides that an emplayee shall he entitled to compensation it' lie is injured on his way 1" or from lii.s place of employment. in the value that is placed on human lie,ih.' under the Bill, there a mil h-ilie-like level of enleubitinn, which apparently will preclude the courts lrom taking all things into consideration. The loss ol the little linger, middle finger. or ring linger, is assessed for example at L'll2 Ills. Here one sees an exactitude which brings the loss down even to prerise shillings. This is shown again in the assessment of the loss of the lower part of a leg. which is valued tit £.162 Ids and of the loss of a part of a thumb, which, a.s in the case of n little linger, is valued at £ll2 10s. Even these sums may not compensate a than adequately for his injuries, hut to reduce the basis to precise shillings appears at least a little novel. They were not nearly as exact ns this in ; Sanutel Butler’s land of Ere when, where every crime had its monetary price and where, for rendering a man deaf. for instance. an offender had to pay the injured one 01s. and for depriving him of the use of his little finger. 11s. T.imbs might have been cheap in those days, hut they did not at least make their calculations with the same exactitude as under this Bill, and assess an unfortunate man's deafness at. say. £3 10s 61(1. They let it go at £3. |

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