Every coal mine has its colony of rats, and for a long time it was the belief of miners that the animals were .reliable gauges of security, in that they were sensitive to the presence of lethal gases. A mining expert who has been attending the sittings of the Royal Commission in Huntley, said that the recent disaster at Glen Afton disproved the belief, since exploration parties in the mine said they found many rats lying dead in the workings. Miners had believed that rats gave a.danger signal by leaving the mine hurriedly as soon as they defected the presence of cartoon monoxide.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20116, 9 December 1939, Page 7
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