ACCIDENT IN A MINE.
GREYMOUTH, September 22. Warden Hutchison and two assessors gave their decision in an official inquiry under the Coal Mines Act into the circumstances of tho death of W. Graham in July last, and tho charges made against the officials of the Blackball Colliery by Mr Newton, inspector on the West Coast. The charges were that the accident wfis indirectly caused by the non-observance* of. Speoial Rule 1, relating to the appointment of sufficient competent persons to carry out the requirements of the Coal Mines Act, and inadequate timbering protection over a flat sheet at the place where Graham was killed. The taking of evidence lasted two days. The decision of the court was that the flat sheet was adequately timbered, and that tho allegations of the inspector wero not sustained by the evidence.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 21
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