Rooney v A J Hollander (NZ) Limited - [1956] NZLR 176

Workers' Compensation — Assessment of Compensation — Dermatitis — Worker suffering from Dermatitis as Result of Employment and unemployed for Eight Weeks — Subsequent Employment as Storeman continuing — Calculation of Pre-Accident Earnings — Compensation calculated on Basis of Eighty per cent. of Difference between Pre-Accident Earnings and Average Weekly Earnings as Storeman — Lump-sum Payment based on Assumption of Diminishing Disability in Loss of Earning Capacity over Remaining Portion of Six-year Period — Workers' Compensation Amendment Act 1936, s 7 (5).