WALLSEND MINE TO OPEN

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21423, 15 March 1935, Page 15

WALLSEND MINE TO OPEN

DISPUTE ABOUT GAS IN WORKINGS SETTLED (SPECIAL TO THE TRESS.) GREYMOUTH, March 14. After being idle for three days through a dispute over gas in the workings, the Wallsend Mine, owned by Brunner Collieries, Ltd., will resume work to-morrow, as the union has accepted the terms submitted by the management. These were that the two pairs of miners who were within two chains of the feeder of gas should be shifted with their truckers to work in the first places in the panel, approximately nine chains from the gas. The panel in question has six men in it, with 14,000 cubic feet of air a minute, and a separate split with independent intake and return airways. The gas feeder which caused the trouble broke through in a cavity in the roof on February 28, when 2000 feet of gas was found to be present. When the Inspector of Mines, Mr Hadcroft. inspected on Wednesday, the amount of gas present had cased cfl to approximately 500 feet. A meeting of the Grey Vallev Worker.-:' Union this evening affirmed (he decision to resume work, but also affirmed the principal that the deputies shall report every find of ga. c every mrrning before work begins. The union still disputes the claim "that the place in question is fully proj tccted under the Coal Mines Act.