FARMERS AND COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 190, 17 August 1901, Page 3

FARMERS AND COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.

TO THK EDITOR. „ Stß,—Just a word aln.ut tin Workers 1 Compensation for Accidents Act and Major Stewa d 1: letter to Ihe Fanners’ Ciuto. Maio- Steward says the Act was n.t in-ended to apply to farmers. I don’t know h>w he tian write such rubbish, and so try to hoodwink farmers or nvscor.stiuo the Act, for it distinctly says in Pert 4, Clause 1 : “ Any industrial, commercial or manufacturing wor k ” Farming is the most industrial ' work earned on in this country, and there have been more fatal accident's connected with it in this district than all otlur work put togri-h r. Nearly all callings are in hSitrieq except the calling of members of Parliament, who sit in the Ho-se and pass such vicious laws &s the above. This act s-,ems to me tc be rather lopsided, and so foggy, that it I seems to have been drafted by a lunatic just out of Sunny-side. Most, of the laws passed in this country ?e m to be framed lawyers or else to puzz : o magistrate*, for not dag else but to gvj fees to the something akin to the mystenou, handwricing upon the wall. There are too many lawyers and n-w j psp -r-men in the House. Wh.»t is Wanted ip a bit of commonsenae legislation, a- p'ain as it can be put in common English, so that he who runs may re.d and the wayfaring man can’t err therein. A Ibnliatnent should consist of a fair representati -n of all callings. It seems to me that the present Government and Ml heir supporters will go out on three Ants : Workers’ Compensation Act, Noxious Weed* Act and the Eight llou s Act. They have been acting a bit too much, and the public a* Urge are getting full of these onesided Act?. It stems a crime now for one -.nan t=» wok for another. Could not the Government provide c-.ch of us with a n ce salary like themselves and a railway pas?, to that wo should not have to work a: all. O. ! wouldn’t it be nice I have he..id it said that .Mr 11. J. Scddon is always jocular in ihe House, and I daresay he is ; £ir so stood 1 [ be -f my bread was hutli-re 1 on b ah si le* and th-ae was plenty mor.» butter in the larder. As a rule, I think most men and women are not fond of Aork. I a-unot, but I h-.ve done a go-id bit in my lime. I read in a b ok once, “ He that toherh not, neither sha Ihe eat ” This is alt bu-kum. It is all chang-d for the lazy 10.-fer that neither toils nor apms, lives on Uu fruits and the fat of the land until ho is gouty, aod becomes much worse than usel- as. When members of P .rliament come round spouting and bowling for your support a ;d your vote, they aie prepared to do ju.t what is required by their supporters, but as s >on as they get away they only think of their screw and passing Acts that no one requires except themselves. — I am, etc., Reformer.