Workers' Compensation Law
pp. 51-52 · Read in the full issue
for N. Guinea
A LAW to provide compensation for workers injured in the course of their employment is to be enacted in New Guinea —following upon long-con tinued agitation for something of the kind.
The measure is to follow generally along the lines of Australian legislation; but some difficulty apparently is being found in defining a “worker”—that is, as between a European worker, an Asiatic worker and a native worker. Until these
little problems are worked out it is im possible to indicate probable rates of insurance. As soon as the compensation law comes into operation in New Guinea, it will become necessary for all employ ers to insure against the usual risks.
Incidentally, it looks as if there is good business waiting here for some bright and enterprising insurance agent.
Mr. R. Speedie, a well-known planter in Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney by the “Macdhui” recently. He was formerly in the Government Service but resigned some two years ago to take up rubber planting.
Captain I>, McClymont, Harbourmaster at Apia, Western Samoa, arrived in New Zealand by the January “Maui Pomare" on furlough. Captain O. Anderson is act ing Harbormaster and Pilot during his absence.