OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1928, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

SAFETY IN MINES

► ANGLO-FRENCH CO-OPERATION

(British Official Wireless.)

RFGBY October 20. The British Government recently made proposals to the French Government *or a scheme of co-operation between the official organisations, in the two countries which are engaged in research work directed towards - securing greeted safety in coal mining.

These proposals have been cordially v accepted, and the scheme is now to be put in operation. Off the British side the technical arrangements will be in the hands of the Safety in Mines Research Board. They will include full interchange of information acquired by accident in the two countries, including unpublished as well ♦as published reports. The respective research organisations will mutually agree with problems each could best study alone and which could more effectively be studied jointly. By this means it should be possible to save money and expedit the work. There will probably be also an occasional interchange of skilled research workers for work requiring special experience.

GUARDS DIVISION

MEMORIAL CROSS ON THE SOMME.

< RUGBY, October 20. 'Next Sunday a moving little ceremony will take place near Les Boeufs, on the Somme, A simple granite cross has been erected at the head of ’ a sunken road leading to Les Boeufs, replacing the rotting wooden cross which was put in’memory of fallen comrades after the two great battles on the Somme in 1916. About 130 officers and men of the present Guards Division—the Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots, Irish and Welsh—will be drawn up around the cross td, assist in its education, which will be per formed by the Rev Pat M’Gormaek, Rector of Saint Martins-in-the-Fields, London., who was senior chaplain to the Guards Division in 1916. .Major-General Sir . Geoffrey Fielding, who commanded the Guards Division in the Somme battles, will "be present.

ACCIDENT PREVENTION

ANGLO-FRENCH RESEARCH

RUGBY, October. 20

The British Government recently made proposals to the French Government for a scheme of co-operation between the official organisations in the two countries which are engaged in research work directed towards securing greater safety in coal miping. •These proposals have been cordially accepted and the scheme is now to be in operation. On the British side technical arrangemnts will be in the hands of the Safety in Mines Research Board. They will include a full interchange of information acquired by accident prevention research in the experience of the two countries, including unpublished as well as published reports. The respective research organisations will mutually agree which problems each could best study alone, and which could more effectively be studied jointly. Bv this means it should be possible to save money and expedite the work. There will probably be also an occasional interchange of skilled research workers for work requiring special experience.