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Injuries

The number of employers
registered with the WCB rose
to a high record of 31,123 dur-
ing the year. Employers pro-
vide all of the money for com-

pensation benefits and serv--

ices through assessments
levied by the WCB
e WCB’s pension fund at
the al of 1962 was $89,556,-
201 plus an additional $5,342,-
558 for silicosis -pensions.
These reserve funds are a
firm guarantee that there will
be money available in the
future to pay all current pen-
sions,
The number of persons in
receipt of WCB pensions at

Compensation Facts

Time Loss compensation paid

Disability pensions awarded

the end of 1962 totalled 15,-
374. They are: .

Partially and totally
disabled sane ster | . 11,271

WAGOWS covet Ba 1,942
Childrens es 2,048
Mothers 22225 se 335 82
Fathers ... 12
Other een ied i. oles 19

B.C. workers who suffered
disabling injuries last year
received the highest average
compensation payment per
case in Canada — over $350
in wage loss compensation
alone, plus medical benefits,
pensions and rehabilitation
services to those entitled.

_-. $8,698,769

Dependent Widows’ and Children’s allowances ......
Burial and lump sum payments

Hospital payments

Fees to medical and other practitioners ——____...._____
Nurses, drugs and surgical supplies __.._.______

Physical Therapy treatment

Transportation and subsistence allowances See Si
Days lost from work due to injuries -.._______- =

Claims for industrial diseases

a ai e patients treated at WCB Rehabilitation

Cen

Number re patients X-rayed at WCB Rehabilitation

Centre
Number of safety inspections

Number of safety orders issued

Incorrect Tax Returns
Force Simpler Forms

A more complicated fed-
eral income tax form has led
to thousands more incorrect
returns than usual, Revenue
department officials have ad-
mitted.

For the first time, taxpay-
ers have had to calculate pro-
vincial as well as federal in-
come taxes. The federal gov-
ernment collects taxes for the
provinces now that the old

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pired.

Usually the percentage of
incorrect returns is about 12
per cent, but this year they
may be almost double that.

Refunds are taking longer.
Revenue officials, who are
taking the full blame, are re-
portedly already at work on
a simpler form for next year’s
returns.

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The claim by foresters of
Crown Zellerbach Corpora-
tion that a tree recently
downed by high winds on
their property at Seaside,
Oregon, was the largest liv-
ing Douglas fir tree in the
world, may be true, but it
certainly isn’t the largest
one known.

The Crown Zellerbach tree
is reported as being 15.7 feet
in diameter at chest height,
with bark four inches thick
at ground level on the weath-
er side and 10 inches thick
on the lee side. It stood 205
feet high and was estimated
to bé 700 years old.

The largest B.C. Douglas
fir tree on record was one
felled in North Vancouver
which stood 417 feet high and
was 25 feet through at the
butt. At 200 feet it still mea-
sured nine feet through with
bark 16 inches thick. :

The oldest B.C. Douglas fir
felled a few years back was
estimated to be 1106 years
old.

Loggers at the Canadian
Forest Products Nimpkish di-
vision dropped a fir tree at
Schoen Lake which was 1092
years old.

perce INTERIOR UNION AGREEMENT providing for

wages in excess of the minimum wage was signed by these
members of the IWA Interior Negotiating Committee, July,
1946. The members are, left: William Langmead, IWA Inter-
national Representative; Mike Sekora, [WA rie gory
Organizer; Helding Ekblad, President of Local 1-424,
Prince George; A. L. Parkin, President of Local 1-405, TWA’
Cranbrook. Wages of 27 cents an hour were gained bringing
the basic rate to 77 cents an hour.

Housing Starts Show Rise

OTTAWA—Housing starts in Canada in 1962 totalled
about 130,000 dwelling units as compared to about 125,000
in 1961. The average income of NHA home-owner borrowers
in 1962 was $6,016 compared to $5,810 the previous year.

Less than one per cent of families borrowing under NHA
were in the income group below $3,000, although they rep-
resent about 25 per cent of all Canadian ‘tamilies.

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