DOBSON DISASTER

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 4

DOBSON DISASTER

mine completely sealed.

finding work for idle men, GREYMOUTH, Dec. 9. Although the odour of fumes is still nerceptibfe at the mouth of the air drive? there was no sign of smoke from the Dobfcon mine to-day. As the resuft of the flooding operations, the is i now completely sealed, and ml + 1 A.i+v at the entrance to tho drive has been discontinued. Pumpfng operations are proceeding, and it s expected that the flooding of tho is expo completed by to-morrow morning 1 It “estimated that it will fake at least two months to unwater themfne, and the time of the recovery ofthfhodies of the five entombed men that in nidition to the twelve miners who have received employment at the Roa mine, ce *l® have since found work at the fme electrical installation at the mine was Sen a thorough test yesterday, and that it was found to be in perfect ° r i!?' reply to representations that employment be the Dobson miners, Mr M. K. Houanci, MP has received the f°^° wing / gram from the Minister of Mines (Hon. G Anderson) Employment can be found for about-20 Dobson men at the State mines, and instructions have been given accordingly. Mr J. Smeaton, president of the Grev Valley Miners’ Union, stated that great credit was due to the inspector Sf mines (Mr J. A, C. Bayne) for tho assistance he had given generally since arriving at Dobson, also the help lie and Mr O’Donnell (mine manager) had given in placing some of the men at the Roa mine. . The Acting-Prime Minister (Hon. W. Downie Stewart) has sent the following message to Mr F. Williams, Mayor of Brunner “Wellington December 9.—1 have been asked by Hon. J G Coates in London, who lias been shocked to hear of the Dobson mine disaster, to extend to the relatives of the unfortunate victims an expression of his own and Mrs Coates’s sincere svmpathy in the sad .bereavement they have suffered. Will you be good enough to convey this message to those concerned?” Mr A. H. Kimbell, Under-Secretary for Mines, arrived this evening from Wellington. Mr Kimbell will visit the Dobson mine to-morrow.

The Mayor of Greymouth (Mr W. H. Parfitt) lias received a message of sympathy from Rev. Dr M. J. Brodie, Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, enclosing a cheque for £2O towards the relief fund, with earnest wishes that the appeal may meet with a very generous response.