NIGHTCAPS MINE COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 September 1907, Page 2

NIGHTCAPS MINE COMMISSION.

J Per Press Association. , ■ Invercargill, Last Night. .The Nfghtcaps Commission started, taking evidence fo-day at iverton. During the examination of Mr. Green, Inspector of • Mines, the chairman,, reminded him that the Commission, was not a board of amateurs, and that everytliing~witnesß said he would be asked to sign.

Witness replied that he would, without fear, sign everything he said. He admitted that the provisions of section 61 of the Act had not been strictly enforced, because he thought it not neaessary. Fire and pillar workings would increase the danger to men, and extra precautions should have been taken. Specially experienced men should have , been put in charge of tne works. He .did not notify the company to that hjffrot, bcequm, txplßhmul wnu [working there at the time of his visit. The last report sent by him about the mine to anyone in authority, prior to ■ 21st June last, was on the 14th of October.

~Mr Handyside, managing dircbtor of the Nightcaps Company, expressed the opnuon tliat the accident was due to the effect of an earthquake on the previous Thursday, ' • .