NIGHTCAPS INQUIRY.
A SERIES OF SERIOUS CHARGES Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 3. Tho Nightcaps Commision concluded sitting at Riverton to-day, when the varyous counsel addressed the Commissioners. Mr. McAlister, as representing the Miners’ Union, preferred a number of charges, alleging failure of duty on the part of tho mine-owners, the mine manager, and Inspector Green. Tho charges against Lloyd (all of them are lengthy) allego intemperance, negligence, recklessness, and failure to comply with the Act. The first indictment of tho owners is that they retained in their employment a manager known to bo of intemperate habits, and others allege that they failed to exercise proper supervision over tho general management of tho mine. Mr. Green is charged with having committed and permitted breaches of the mining regulations, and with having failed to do and having dono certain things that should have been done.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2202, 4 October 1907, Page 3
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