Caused

W. & H. Frustration

A Nervous Breakdown

[N the Brisbane Magistrates’ Court on March 11, Mr. Harry Miller claimed damages from the Common wealth as compensation for a nervous ireakdown he suffered four years igo.

Miller, reported to be New Guinea >orn, was stated to have been res jonsible for the lights of Rabaul hining again after the war.

He said that he had had a nervous ireakdown because of overwork and train caused by the lack of adminis ration and lack of co-operation of >ther Commonwealth employees in he Works Department, Miller claimed that in 1948 he col apsed with shock when he saw the tabaul power plant's main engine mashed because of incompetency fter he had repaired all the boilers.

Because of this breakdown, he had •een incapacitated for the past four ears.

Mr. McKenna, SM, in a reserved lecision reversed a determination of tie Commissioner for Employees’ rompensation, which had rejected filler’s claim. Mr. McKenna found

that Miller had suffered a physiologi cal change and a nervous breakdown.

Mr. C. D. Sheehan (for Miller) said that under the scale provided in the Commonwealth Employees Com pensation Act the amount of com pensation should be in the vicinity of £l,OOO.

Miller was allowed £36/3/8 costs.