FIRES IN COLLIERIES.
SOME PITS OVERHEATED. OWNERS' SERIOUS PROBLEM. MORE SAFETY MEN NEEDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.35 p.m.) Renter. LONDON. Aug. 11. Tho coalmine owners in South Yorkshire are experiencing serious trouble through the overheating of the pits. Chving to the small number of safety men who are permitted to work, fires have broken out in many of the mines. The situation is so seribus in the Bentley colliery, near Doncaster, that 600 extra safety men have been permitted to work. The miners have declined to allow extra safety men to work in the Brodworth colliery however, although their leaders had assented. There is excessive heating in this mine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 11
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110FIRES IN COLLIERIES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 11
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