BATHS AT PITHEADS
INSTALLATION IN BRITAIN COST OF TWO MILLIONS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Nov. 17. (Received Nov. 18, at 5.5 p.m.) The Miners’ Welfare Fund has plans in hand for the installation of pithead baths at a total cost of £2,100,000 —an amount nearly equal to the cost of all the baths installed between 1926 and the present day. When the proposed installations are completed bath accommodation will have been provided for 444,000 miners, or two-thirds of the working population underground.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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82BATHS AT PITHEADS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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