HC Deb 27 January 1930 vol 234 cc648-9W
Mr. MANDER

asked the Secretary for Mines what steps are being taken to overcome the danger created in mines by inability to hear the cracking of the roof owing to the noise made by electric cutting-machines?

Mr. TURNER

This point is bound up with much larger questions of roof-control and support in machine mining generally which are receiving the close attention of the Inspectors of Mines and the Safety in Mines Research Board.