NIGHTCAPS MINE DISASTER.
Per Press Association. Invercargill, Thursday. The Commission appointed to into the death of three miners who were suffocated in the Nightcaps colliery in Jane concluded its fitting at Riwrtoii to*day, when counsel addressed the Commissioners. Mr. Macalister, representing the Miners' I'nion, preferred a nmn- 1 ber of charges, alleging failure of duty j on the part of the mine owners, the minft managers, and Inspector Green. The charges against Mr. Llovd. the manager (all of them arc lengthy) allege intemperance, negligence, reckl"<sn»'-«. and failure to comply with the Act. The first indictment of the owners is thai tbey retained in their employment a manager of known intemperate habits, the others allege that they failed to exercise proper supervision over tho general management of the mine. Mr. Green ia charged with having committed And permitted breaches of the mining Tegnlation£, and with having failed to do certain things that should have been Ann*
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 October 1907, Page 5
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155NIGHTCAPS MINE DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 October 1907, Page 5
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