Filer v The King - [1951] NZLR 1018

Workers' Compensation — Assessment — Limitation of ss 3 and 4 of the Workers' Compensation Amendment Act, 1949, to Cases where Crown pays Compensation "as the employer" — Worker employed by Westport Coal Co Ltd — Liabilities of Company deemed by Statute to be Liabilities of Crown from October 1, 1948 — Worker employed by Company injured in October, 1947 — Crown liable not "as the employer" but because of Liability imposed by Westport Coal Company Act, 1948 — Wage Increases imposed by General Orders — Part of "weekly amount which the worker is earning . . . after the accident" — Whether Annual Holiday Pay Part of "average weekly earnings" — Workers' Compensation Act, 1922, s 5 (6) — Workers' Compensation Amendment Act, 1936, ss 6 (1), 7 (5) — Workers' Compensation Amendment Act, 1949, ss 3, 4 — Finance Act, 1949, s 11 — Westport Coal Company Act, 1948, s 4.