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was earning before the accident and the amount he is earning 

 (or is able to earn in some suitable employment or business) 

 after the accident, but is to " bear such relation to the amount 

 of that difference as under the circumstances of the case may 

 appear proper." Thus, if a workman who has been earning 

 £2 a week, gets £1 a week compensation while totally disabled, 

 the £1 must be reduced to at least 10s. as soon as he is so far 

 recovered as to be able to earn 30s. in a suitable employment. 

 Otherwise his compensation and weekly earnings together 

 would amount to more than the £2 which he was earning 

 before the accident. If, however, he only recovers sufficiently 

 to earn £1 a week, no definite rule is laid down as to reducing 

 the amount of compensation ; the amount will be a matter 

 to be settled, by agreement between the parties or by the 

 arbitrator, according to the circumstances of the case. 



In fixing the weekly payment, any payment, allowance or 

 benefit which the workman may receive from the employer 

 during his incapacity, is to be taken into account. 



There is a special scale in the case of a workman who is 

 under 21 years of age at the time of the injury. If his average 

 weekly earnings were less than £1, the weekly payment 

 awarded may be any sum up to 10s., e.g., if his wage is 14s., 

 he may under this scale get 10s. instead of 7s. a week. Further, 

 if the disablement last more than twelve months, the weekly 

 payment may be increased, on the application of the work- 

 man, to half the weekly sum which he would probably have 

 been earning at the time of the application if he had remained 

 uninjured, subject to a maximum of £1. 



Moths. — Two caterpillars which attack fruit trees were 

 forwarded from Knutsford (Cheshire), one being that of the 

 Figure-of-8 Moth (Diloba coeruleocephala) 



Moth (Porthesia chrysorrhcea). This 

 caterpillar may be combated by the measures recommended 

 in Leaflet No. 69 (Tent Caterpillars). Special attention 



Notes on Insect, 

 Fungous, and Other 

 Pests.* 



mentioned in this Journal for July, 

 p. 213, and the other the Brown Tail 



Notes on insect, fungous and other pests, dealing with the specimens submitted 

 to the Board for identification and their apparent prevalence, will appear in this 

 Journal, month by month. (See also Journal, June and July, 1907.) 



