LYELL MINE DISASTER
COMMISSION’S REPORT NO FOUNDATION FOR SUGGESTION OF INCENDIARISM. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received February 6, 9.35 p.m.) HOBART, February 6. The report of the Royal Commission on the North Lyell disaster on October 12th states that there is no foundation for the suggestion of _ incendiarism, only one witness testifying to seeing candles under billies warming tea. The Commissioners consider it unsafe to rely on this uncorroborated evidence, and they state that there is no evidence of any other source whence the fire might have arisen through carelessness. , They consider that the attempt to prove that tho disaster was duo to a defect in tho electrical installation failed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8348, 7 February 1913, Page 7
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110LYELL MINE DISASTER New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8348, 7 February 1913, Page 7
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