COMMISSION ON MINES
PREVENTION OF EXPLOSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, October ,90. Tho report of the Royal Commission on Mines is about to be issued. Sir Arthur Markham, M.P. (Liberal), who was a member of tho Commission, declared, in the course of a speech that the evidence conclusively showed that stone-dusting of all roads in mines wan a preventive of explosions. If tho proportion of stone was equal to the coal dust, that would prevent explosions of coal dust, which was undoubtedly tho cause of the Welsh calamity. Ho advocated the compulsory use of electrio safety lamps in all mines, -which, ho estimated, would cost about a million to iusfal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8558, 22 October 1913, Page 7
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110COMMISSION ON MINES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8558, 22 October 1913, Page 7
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