NIGHTCAPS MINE INQUIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 5

NIGHTCAPS MINE INQUIRY.

Per Press Association. nvereargDl, Last Night. At the Nightcaps Commission, IX-pnt; I Dixon was recalled. lie admitted tin once before temporary stoppings wer , put up he had to be carried away froi a fire where he had been pouring watei and was overcome by gases. That wa about two months before the di-iaste: Mackie and Lloyd carried him an ay. James Somervflle, who after cleve years in the'"service of the Nightcaf Company has left and become a farnn since the-fire, said that on a nightshii he had once called Frame out, about tw months before the disaster, because tl smoke and fire was bad. Later, Fram •aid not to call him again. On ths occasion the fan was started, and th smoke cleared away and the fire gf under. Witn-ss and a boy name ! Brazier were troubled by smoke ever night, and several times felt overran by something in the mine. He nearl always had a headache on nightshif and frequently vomited.