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Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 5

News has been received in Wellington that Piki who played in Australia as half-back for the Maori team this, season, is still in the Sydney hospital, Piki had the misfortune to break a leg during one of the games and contracted poisoning. He was taken to the Sydney hospital where he bae been for twelve or thirteen weeks. It was at first thought that it would be necessary to amputate the limb, but later the doctors decided that only a niinpr operation need be performed. The operation was successful, and Piki is now on the hi~ii road to recovery. Notice has been given by Mr J. Payne. M.P., to ask the, Prime Minister whether he will introduce legislation this session for the purpose of setting up a Board of Life Protection, which board shall have for its object the inquiring into the industrial conditions of gold and coal miners and other workers, with power to order mine owners and others to provide the necessary machinery and apparatus to render all our industries as free from danger to human life as it is possible to render them. "Such a board should be given such power as enable them to compel mine-ownere and others to efficiently timber all the underground workings," says Mr Payne, "to provide exhaust fans which would' reduce the dust in any mine to an absolute minimum; and so gradually eliminate the terrible miner's complaint."