LIFT ACCIDENTS.
LAXITY DENIED. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Interviewed regarding statements made arising out of a fatal lift acoldent which was the subject of an inquest here a few days ago, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe,. Minister in Charge of the Inspection of Machine/y Department, expressed the opinion that legislative measures could not prevent all classes of accidents.
He quoted figures showing the acoident -ratio for last year was one for each group of 225 lifts, . which scarcely indicated that the lift regulations were as / scandalously lax as they were reported to be. ’ * j
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 9
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