RESCUE APPARATUS IN MINES
'SUGGESTED LEGISLATION."A CRUEL ASPERSION." Press Association—By < Telegraph—Copyrighi , LONDON, June 9. Mr Winston ChuTchilli (Home' Secretary) discussed'with the representatives of the Auiners' Association prospective legislation to establish a rescue station, .and that every consideration be given to mines .making provision for supplying adequate rescue apparatus. The representatives' referred to Mi' Keir Hardie's speech relating to the Whitehaven disaster. Mr Churchill sai'd that Mr Hardie's statement and the story were cruel and disgraceful. He greatly regretted that a member of the House of Commons should have uttered 1 suoh a cruel aspersion. MR HARDIE'S STATEMENT. ALLEGED DEFECTS IN THE MINE. LONDON, June. 10. (Received June 10, at 10.15 p.m.) • Mr KeirHardie adheres to his statement that in all probability when it was decided to • wall up the mine, the- miners were still alive, • What his .speech more particularly emphasised was ■ that there would have been no disaster, had the spirit of the Mines Regulation Act been observed.. The fire occurred.in a bottle neck, which was the only means of egress, He adds that beyond the neck where the workings branch off in five main levels, it would have been easy to construct a safety road thence to the pit shaft. This was- especially what requited investiga-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14857, 11 June 1910, Page 7
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