ELECTRICITY IN MINES.
COMMISSION'S REPORT.
0/ Te!errnph. — Press Association. — Copyright, (Received March 2, 10 a.m,-) SYDNEY, This Day. The 'report of the Committee of Enquiry regarding the use of electricity in mines is available. The general conclusions show that with proper precautions electricity may be safely employed in collieries. The commission was sat up as the result of men in the Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle, objecting to work, in the mine because sparking electric cables wero used to supply power to the coal-cutting machines.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1908, Page 7
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83ELECTRICITY IN MINES. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1908, Page 7
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