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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 7

■ As the result of the Board of -.Trade inquiry into the disastrous accident on the Great Northern Railway at" Grantham last September, when it will be remembered that the wreckage caught fire after the accident, the Board of Trade inspector, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Von Donop, states in his official report:—"With regard to the fire amongst the vehicles at the bottom of the embankment, it was impossible to obtain any definite evidence as to how \it originated ; it also may have been due to fire from ; the engine, but from ; the suddenness with which the fire broke out, and from the fierceness with which it burnt, it is difficult to resist the conclusion that it was more probably due to an escape of gas, with which these vehicles were lighted. In any case,_ it seems certain that its intensity was considerably increased from that cause, and I consider that this accident points, as previous accidents have • already done, to the unsuitability of gas as an illuminant for railway vehicles." It wills-be' remembered that the Board of Trade, in reporting on previous accidents at Witham, on the Great Eastern Railway, and at Aylesbury, on the Great Central Railway, also condemned gas for railway carriage lighting, and suggested the use of electric lighting instead. MEDICAL OPINION. . Ask your doctor what soap he recommends for the skin and he will uphold the opinion of the highest medical authorities on the skin, viz., D. c Redwood, ;4 Ph.D., F. C. S. ,;• F.1.C., the late Professor Sir Erasmus Wilson/ Mr. John L. Milton, and Professor J. Attfield, etc., that Peaks' Soa? is the best.