THE MINING TROUBLE.
ALARMIST REPORT.
LABOUR’S MISREPRESENTATION.
(By Telegraph.—Special to Times.); WELLINGTON, Tuesday.
In the Maoriland Worker appears a statement that 460 miners were killed and injured in the mines last year, or 30 more men than the year before. This statement is, to say the least of it, misleading, because it implies that there were 460 serious accidents and that many of these were fatal. A study of the mines statement presented to the House of. Representatives by the Minister shows that the number of fatal accidents last year in the mines was only six as compared with 10 the year before. The number of serious non-fatal accidents .was 29, as a result of which 30 men were seriously injured, or seven men less than the year before.
In 1921 the number killed by accident per thousand persons employed was 2.28 and for 1922 the proportion per thosand persons employed was ‘ 31.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15356, 3 October 1923, Page 2
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