'SETS" OR "PROPS."

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 10

'SETS" OR "PROPS."

' -Zi STATE MINE DEPUTE \ CONrEEENCE AT GBETMQtIa \ (Bj Telerrarh-Press Association.) " ' GREYMOUTH. Wedaesdav. '" Tne dispute at the State mines fea^J to die stoppage o: work o ve r J? 5 method of timbering of double roads m incune jigs, was further Considered *t» conference Wtween the parties. Mr Kimoell. f„ jg* r " presiding. aa > Mr. Xirnbell recalled the 1516 c on i eT ence on the timbering question *__J rea.-ned a decision to abolish prop. 0 a double roads except where sets __J_ I when collared props arc put j n _ , Mr J Connell. for the men, said tier ■ asked ior the condition* agreed *o '" jlUll. that all double jigs be timber* : wnh sets instead of props, and th» u 59 ;of more chocks. The men objected to | the use oi centre props, bnt were pre. j pared to accept a prop as close to tha j outside rail as possible.

j About a dozen miners gav e evidener j saying centre props were dangerous, *__ I recalling numerous fatalities prior to ; 1911. It was stated that tw 0 moTa j chock? would have save! the life of tha I miner Knox, killed in February last. It I was alleged that the management __a conducted a general offensive in t})} s j matter in the mines, breaking the mats i initiative, creating lack of confidence ia ! the management and endangering life.