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Warrant of Appointment.


Order of the Secretary of State Dated the 11th day of April, 1922, under Section 66 of the Explosives Act, 1875, directing a formal investigation to be held into the causes and circumstances of an explosion at Dudley Port, Staffordshire.

In pursuance of Section 66 of the Explosives Act, 1875, I hereby direct that a formal investigation shall be held of the accident which occurred in a Workshop in Groveland Road, Dudley Port, Staffordshire, on the 6th March, 1922, and of the causes thereof and of the circumstances attending the same.

And I hereby appoint

Colonel Samuel Fleming, Metropolitan Police Magistrate, to hold the same with the assistance of major Cooper-Key, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Explosives, as Assessor.

(Signed)Edward Shortt.

11th April, 1922.