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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 5

Althougn explosions are frequency looked ul>on a£ the chief, danger to which of Britain is extosS in fact they account for less &12 per cent, of the total deaths. The average death-rate from various i classes of accident per 1000 persons employed under-ground for the ten years Lded 1912 was as foilows i-Exfrs of fire-damp or coal dust, 0.17; falls of ground, 0.74; shaft accidents, Oil miscellaneous, 0.44; all causes,. 1.46. There has been a steady decline m the death rate from accidents during the last 30 years, which is more particularly marked in the case of explosions, and last year, 1912, showed the lowest death rate on record. For discing 30 feet from the bridge deck of a steamer going at full speed and saving a man who. had fallen ove;board, William Phillips, of Cardigan, fm aDprentice on the steanishm Paddington wa-s presented at Cardiff with the "Royal Humane Society's medal. Mr John Cory said Phillips' was the bravest deed he had heard of in fifteen years. A few drops of "NAZOL" on a pie<"'e of sugar soothes and relieves a 9-r-o t.^oat wonderfully. Easy to take, pleasant to taste, and most effi-tac-.o'js vi effect. —Advt.