NECESSARY WANTS.

Kumara Times, Issue 943, 8 October 1879, Page 2

NECESSARY WANTS.

The writer of the article entire I “ The late Fatal Accident at Larrikin’s’ Terrace,” in his advocacy of the ap-' 2)6intniemt of a committee of manage-, merit for the speedy releasement -of thoSe who art so unfortunate as to get buried in dtir mines, desires for the more “ concentrated; action” on the 1 part of the relief party that some raea.ns “ be devised whereby one or two men' could be authorised to hastily' summon,' a few together and decide on a certain' course of action.” As the writer hasexpressed a wish only that such a thing : could be done without making any suggestion towards its accomplishment I will try and help him on a little' with his good work, but in doing so I. must Mist advocate the appointment of' a beat mining inspector as a proven titive to these accidents, for it must be patent to all’that the wholesale Idas of life and limb caused principally -through, carelessness and inability in district must be checked in someflvav, and I can see no other successful way of accomplishing this end thab by the intervention of the strong arm of the law iu the shape of an Inspector of Mines/ It is'imw something like two and 1 a*'

half years si"co I first mJ vc; iteri through-!he cobimns of the Grey lviv<r Argus pie necessity of these appointtnenfs. The idea, by some. was innue liately pooh-hooe.d on the ground that, ihere being no law to authorise it, private parties would object to any interference on the part of an inspector. This argument was all very v. ell as far as it went, but “ where there is a will there i& a ■way,” and were it shown lliat tb sate life and the consequent misery of the widows find orphans who, through these accidents, are suddenly bereft of their only means of suppoit it is necessary that-these appointments he triads and, a law framed to bring jtrirate as well as public companies under the Supervision of tlic Mines Inspector, we would find our legislators ore as .capahle’of making lawfc to meet this requirement 'as they are to make humane laws for the preservation of the health of the eiiiploVeeS in the private muii'ifactnring establishments of our large cities. Others viewing my suggestion in a financial light objected bn the grounds that we were keeping more -.public officers already than the Country could afford, -little dreaming lhat every two or three of these deaths, fhrongh public Anb-criptions and ‘ charitable entertainments for the benefit of the relicts of the deceased costs the cptrimuhity in which they 'happen more tlihri-Would pay ihe yearly salary of a thoroughly practical and otherwise Competent man. But. if I was premature in my advocacy of these oppointments two year, ago the. time has evidently come when this subject shon’d be again revived, and I hope as a firs' step .towards gratifying the writer's ■wish for iff ore “ fioheentrated action,” to see liim’uising his pen with me hi advocating the appointment of a locd if we ate successful in our endeavois we will then have a head of a department proVialy,r should occassion require it, might have the power to deputy one br two for the desired object, and give hs the billets of Son centra tioti; who knows 1 S. B. H.