ACCIDENT PREVENTION.
(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) ,Sib,—ln relation to the unfortunate accident at the Manakau mine, and your suggestion that cartridges should be used, allow me, as a person having some experience, to state that there is a more convenient way having even less danger than the one you name. The common usage always leaves more or lrss fine dust powder at the bottom of a dry hold in which naked powler is u?ed ; the natural and always-to-hand safeguard from thia train is what is known as a wet swahstick: -It should be well dipped two or three times in the water tub. This not only destroys the fine dust powder but forms a very definite and safe partition between the charge of powder^and^tbe tamping. This precaution should also be taken.when a charge of powder is extracted before (as is sometimes done) putting a drill into the hole. An accident from this cause occurred a few days back, which might hare proved more serious than it did.— Yours, &c, Thos. Juices, Thames, September 16 1975,
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2092, 17 September 1875, Page 2
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178ACCIDENT PREVENTION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2092, 17 September 1875, Page 2
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