Compensation For Native
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N.G. Workers
Prom Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, March 31.
IN, addition to the somewhat surprising announcement that the Employers’
Liability Ordinance, 1912, of Papua, is in force in the Mandated Territory, and provides for compensation for injured European workers, it is also announced that the Commission which is inquiring into various aspects of native labour in the Territory proposes that legislation should be introduced to provide compensation for native workers.
Compensation for European workers is something that has been demanded for some time (no one being aware that the Papuan ordinance applied in New Guinea), but the proposal to provide compensation for native labourers is bound to arouse a good deal of discus sion. Some special machinery would have to be created in New Guinea to provide for the insurance required by employers of native labour.
Mr. Arthur Ousey, formerly manager of the Hotel Sigatoka in Fiji, is now in the N.Z. military forces.
Mr. A. J. Rutledge, secretary of W. R.
Carpenter and Co. (Fiji), Ltd., has re signed from the Suva office. He has been succeeded by Mr. E. Palfreyman, who arrived in the Colony from Sydney in March.
Miss D, E. Wilson, who will shortly take up nursing duties at the Methodist Mission’s hospital at Vunairima, New Britain, is at present undergoing train ing at the George Brown Missionary CoUege, N.S.W.
Mr. H. T. Fairbrother. a resident of Tulagi, Solomon Islands, is at present on a visit to New Zealand.
Miss Martha Caporn, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Caporn, merchant, of Noumea, New Caledonia, has announced her engagement to Mr. Arthur W. White, second son of Mr. and Mrs.
White, of Gladesville, Sydney. t M F r di T Tre^ illS Nel ho GXa ee stace m i9 n 2 e 6 r died at tS wau HosStafon March 14.' Mr. Wills had been in Papua and New Guinea for uowards of 20 years, and all who had known him in both Territories felt that a man of business integrity and honest purpose had passed from their midst. Mr. Wills was bom within the sound of Bow Bells, and prior to taking up mining, had been at sea for many years. His burial was attended by many old friends, and was conducted by Rev.
V. H. Sherwin.