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FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR DATE 1961 Nov 30 DOC CSR049 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Internal A.B.A. Letter RE Serious Situation with Dust Collection mee SIMPSON 113 a LTD SAC SAC : : oo le _ oo _ _ AUSTRALIAN BLUE ASBESTOS PTYLIMITED Tee meer Box 483. G.P.O. MANAGING AGENTS om aweces THE COLONIAL Sugar REFINING COMPANY AUSTRALIAN 1-7.Q'ConnelI ST SYDNEY AUSTRALIA LIMITED ot AUSTRALIAN AUSTRALIAN BLUE ASBESTOS ASBESTOS MINES & MILLS WITTENDOM GORGE JAF [- _ 4 DEC 1961 PERTH PERTH The General Superintendent @ Pty.Ltd _ . Australian Blue Asbestos W.A. ne, P. No. 164 30th November 1961 Dear Sir DUST COLLECTION . W.P.878 We are deeply disturbed | - by the letter of November 6 written by Mr. Boyland to the Manager Australian Blue Asbestos Ltd. This indicates a much more serious situation than we had understood to be the case and we consider that we are obliged to reply to the letter as from the Manager A.B.A A possible draft letter is suggested below may like to enlarge on this You or Mr.Allan Mr.Allan In addition we think it may serve a useful purpose to forward a letter from this office to the State Mining Engineer to give assurance the of our awareness of problem our serious concern about it and the action planned to improve the position We will send the signed original of this letter to you and if you agree ask you to pass it on to Mr.Brisbane If you think it requires amendment please telegraph your comments by : B.M.D. telex and we will write the letter if necessary In the event which we hope is remote that Mr. Boyland serves notice that the Mine or Mill is unsafe you are to instruct Mr. Allan to stand down all employees without pay until further notice We do not know stage how at this to improve the dust hazard any more quickly and therefore rapidly service of notice will not help to improve conditions more working as maintained We would however like you to ensure that the Rotoclones effectively as they can and that a full head of water is without fail at all times are being Australian Blue Asbestos Ltd. -2- . 30th November 1961 ee boo Be E. fe Be s - ( e fi( DRAFT TO MR BOYLAND can arrange We wish to acknowledge your letter of November 6 dust conditions at Wittenoom As you know we have concerning dust elimination and have made a conscientiously woTrhkiesd thoasimbpereonvea difficult and costly job and we are lot of progress It will be made as still assiduously pursuing further improvement rapidly as we it furthe It would assist us if you could give us a measure of the standards with which you seek to have us comply and of the test methods to be used to check these standards conditions Please be assured that we are anxious to avoid and which may be hazardous or injurious to the health of our employees . will do our utmto o s avot id them Signed 0.A. Allan Houses Please advise us of our commitment maintenance of town houses What is the unexpired with the W.A. Housing Commission and what would be if the houses were all unoccupied in regard to term of our agreement our annual liability A copy of this letter is enclosed for you to forward to Mr. Allan if you wish : Yours faithfully King Malcolmh Malcolmh Malcolmh King King Malcolmh Malcolmh KiKinng g pro Managing Director