NORTH MT. LYELL FIRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 51, 24 October 1912, Page 6

NORTH MT. LYELL FIRE.

RELIEF FOR: THE WORKERS. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Adelaide, October 24. The Government gives £SOO to the Lyell Relief Fund. Hobart, October 24, The Lyell i Company keeps certain smelters going to construct the tram to the Comstock property, chiefly with the object of affording. relief to the men idled by the disaster and keeping the staff together till the men are again working. DISCUSSION IN THE ASSEMBLY. In the Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition moved a motion deploring the fact that the Government had not insisted on precautions being taken •which would have prevented the terrible loss of life at North Lyell, and stated that they took action because the mine was. to be flooded. He would 'have withheld the motion had he thought that a coronial inquiry would be held. The Government accepted the motion as one of want of confidence, and the debate chiefly turned on the question of providing a second outlet from the mine. It was shown that the mining regulations did not provide for this excepting in the case of collieries. The debate was adjourned.