A MINER'S DEATH.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15244, 4 December 1919, Page 3

A MINER'S DEATH.

MANAGER FINED

lUnitkd Piubs Assouiaiion. '

Dunedin, Dec. 3 At the Police Court, David McNeil *was charged with failing to withdraw Robert \\ liliam Sm* h from an unsaf' place in tne Brighton coalmine. .VI r ■ViacGi'ogor, K.C., who prosecuted said that tlie defendant was manager o the mine, and Smith was killed by a i"al of strnT. The defendant at 7.55 a.m on the day of the accident examined tin face wlior.. smith was working, aiu found it safe. At' 2 p.m. he again visit ed the place, and heard a sound wlnci indicated looseness. The defendan told the deceased to take down the stuti Or: returning at 3.5 p.m. he found tin; had not been done, and told him empha tically to take it down. A fall tooi place almost immediately afterwards and Smit i was killed. The defendant's counsel argued thai the .instn-eiirnis given were reasonable Tho Magistrate said the defendam shimkl ha\e .uthdrawn Smith. The defendant was lined £5 and costs