MINE RESCUE STATIONS
GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TRAINING OF PERSONNEL (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this. day. The Minister of Mines, the Hon. P. C. Wdbb, stated yesterday that the Government was fully alive to the dangers arising in coal mines from fires and explosions, and had endeavoured to anticipate a disaster such as that at Glen Alton. The question might be asked, said the Minister, why a rescue .station was not established in the Waikato district, but it had to be remembered that it was necessary to have a jump-ing-off place for this work and, as tiie greatest potential danger was considered to be in the Grey district, it was decided to commence the -scheme in that area and latei draft the men to other districts to assist in the establishment of rescue stations in other Selected areas.,, It was questionable, even if there had been a rescue station in the Huntly district, if the disaster could have been avoided, but possibly it might have been minimised. Every effort had been made by the department to meet the situation that had arisen, _
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 12
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180MINE RESCUE STATIONS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 12
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