THE NIGHTCAPS MINE FATAL ITY.
■ ii ■ rii-a ii. THK COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. [United Press Association.] INVEI.CAR.JILL, Thursday. Tho Nightcaps mine fatality Commission concluded its sitting at Riverton to-day, when the various counsel addressed the Commissioners. Mr Macalister, as representing the Miners' Union, preferred a number of' charges alleging failures of duty on the part of the mine owners, the mine manager, ■%nd Inspector Green. The charges against Lloyd (all of them are lengthy) allege intemperance, negligence, reckelssness, and failure to comply with the Act. The first indictment of the owners is, that they retained in their employment a manager of known intemperate habits, and the others allege that they failed to exercise a proper supervision over the general management of the mine. Inspector Green is charged with having committed and permitted breaches of the mining regulations, and with having failed to lo certain things, and with not having done things that should have been done.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 October 1907, Page 2
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155THE NIGHTCAPS MINE FATALITY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 October 1907, Page 2
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