CARE OF EXPLOSIVES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16551, 15 May 1914, Page 2

CARE OF EXPLOSIVES.

COMMISSION SET UP.

TPh» Pmss Association.'! \ WELLINGTON, May 14. The following have been aPP O^ , a Royal Commission to report upon the ca£ and carriage of explosives in the dominion: — . . «,. t Mr B. W. Holmes, Engmeer-in-Ohief. Lieutenant Elmshe, of H.M.S. Edwards, of the Army Staff VThe Commission, which will report by July 31, has nothing to do with the Hutt disaster, as it was first mooted a year ago. A number of questions* have been under discussion for some time, including the location of a magac zine fourteen miles from Auckland, m, tho Hauraki Gulf, and the carriage of I explosives on motor lorries. <