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The regional officers responsible for determining the continuance
or otherwise of monetary benefits already take into their province
not only the medical aspect of the case but the nature of the work
the person habitually carries out. In this latter consideration it
will now be necessary for them to take into their consideration the
distance the person has to travel in order to obtain suitable work,
and although this factor has been more or less ruled out of order in
the past it is one which will have to be very seriously considered
in the future.
In November of 1929 I had the pleasure of a consultation with
Dr. Cross of the Ministry of Health on this very question, and I
am hopeful that the question of where work can be obtained will
in future be given as great a prominence as the question of what
work can be obtained.