THE HUNTLY DISASTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 7 October 1914, Page 8

THE HUNTLY DISASTER.

' AX ASSISTAST-EXAMINER GIVES '■ EVIDBNC& VAST GAS ACOUJfUIATIONB. liy Telegraph.—Press Agsocitition. Auckland, Last Night The Commisision enquiring into tho j fatal explosion at Balph'si wine at i JiiinUy on September 12 heard further ■evidence to-day. A man named Young, who declined to give cyidomce until he was subpoened, declared that during the time he v.'tw assistant examiner he had founc? larjte accumulations of dangerous pas. He considered thci mine unsafe during tjlii-i time, and presently left it and 'took other employment. He did not report "very discoveiy of gas to his superiors, and did not tell the* manager of his discovery on one occasion of what lie estimated to be 33,000 cubic feet ? of gas. fovcrcly cross-examined, lie indicated - that ho was afraid to report the disB Vovories of gas to the principal official'. A numb?r of witnesses testified tj having observed an accumulation of gas y in the mine en several occasions. ' William Wood, manager of the Hi.f tended Mine at ITuntly, said from thi> 11 position of the body of IFnrtin, who is . believedto have' caused the explosion, { MartigttH evidently opened a door leadg ins old workings, and his naked lighl) immediately ignited the aocum<Hlation of gas there, which in turn ignit- / cd the coal dust. j • Tha Commission adjouraed until to- ,. morrow.