USE OF MONOBEL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2301, 7 November 1914, Page 4

USE OF MONOBEL

DECISION OP.- THE- ARBITRATORS. (By Telegraph.—Prose Association.) Auokland, November 6. The: judgment of the arbitrators appointed under the Coal-mines Act to decide whether monobel pWder is a safe explosive to use in the Extended mine at Huntly was announoed to-day by Mr. Justice Cooper, -who presided. On October .1 the Inspector of Mines gave the Taupiri Company notice to discontinue the use of monobel powder in the Extended mine as being dangerous: The company protested, and tie question was referred , to arbitration. The. arbitrators determined that none but permitted explosives shall be used in the Extended mine, monobel being excluded from the list, but if the company is unable within a reasonable time to procure the permitted explosives and desire to use; monobel, it shall first obtain permission />f, the, Minister of, Mines,who must ]/e satisfied that permitted explosives a,te not, obtainable within a reasonable time;'also that all necessary precautions'for the safe use of monobel will be taken, and the Minister may, in bis discretion, grant such permission, which in no case shall extend beyond the period of continuance "of the present war or such reasonable timo thereafter.