A COLLIERY INQUIRY
MINING INSPECTOR AND THE BLACKBALL COMPANY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Greymouth, September 22. Warden Hutchison and two assessors gave their decision in the official inquiry under Ihe Coal Mines Act into the circumstances of the death of W. Graham in July last find the charges made against officials of the Blackball colliery by'Mi'. Newton, inspector of the West Coast, The charges were that tho acciflent was indirectly caused through the non-ob-servance of a special rule relating to the appointment of sufficient competent persons to carry out the requirements of the Coal Mines Act; and to the inadequate timbering protection over the flat sheet place where Graham was killed. The taking of evidence lasted two days. The decision of the Court was that tho flat sheet was adequately timbered, and that the allegations of tho inspector were not sustained. Evidence in tho second inquiry into the double fatality was taken yesterday, and decision reserved.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3198, 24 September 1917, Page 5
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