COLLIERY DISASTER.
DID THE HORSES KNOW ? AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 11.45 n.nt.) SYDNEY, Sept. 6. The situation at Cessonoek Ls gloomy and depressing, following on Saturday's disaster. Many theories aro circulating among the miners respecting the catastrophe, one being that the horses had to ho whipped into the mines on Satttrdav as their instinct intimated danger. Mr F.stell. ex-Ministcd for Alines, speaking in the Legislative Council, said that the mine owners should be compelled to tunnel through to the far end of tho leases from where the coal should be cut, and -work back. ’J he present system was entirely wrong as when the coal was cut away, the debris formed gases and also tended to cut off the retreat of the men in the evenf- of their attempting tt) escape.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1923, Page 2
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136COLLIERY DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1923, Page 2
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