HUNTLY MINES
WORK RESUMED. (By Telegraph.—Prose Association,) Auokjand,, November 2. Work was resumed at the Huntly mines this morning with "permitted' explosives, a supply of which arrived ■from Australia .last week. Fifty went into Ralph's Mine, where they were engaged, principally in clearing away debris resulting from the explosion m September, and about 210 resumed, ordinary operations in the Extended Mine./ 'The latter found themselves considerably handicapped by the safety lamps, which are now compulsory, and used throughout these mines, and each of which has about half a candle-power, giving considerably less illumination than the old naked light. "It is expected that the output of the mines will regain normal as the men become accustomed to the feebler illuminant,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 3
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119HUNTLY MINES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 3
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