35

H.- 18

Return of Notices given to repair Boilers in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890.

Return of Notices given to fence Dangerous Parts of Machinery in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890.

Return of Accidents to Life and Limb which have occurred in connection with Land Boilers and Machinery in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890.

Date of Notice. Description of Boiler. ' I Nature of Repairs ordered. 1889. May 25 June 21 June 28 July 9 July 9 Julv 9 July 29 Aug. 8 Oct. 3 Oct. 18 Oct. 25 Oct. 25 Oct. 29 Oct. 31 Nov. 4 1890. Jan. 8 Jan. 7 Feb. 17 Feb. 26 Feb. 26 Feb. 26 Mar. 14 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 ... Digester ... ... New angle-irons in crown. ... Locomotive ... Retubed. ... Vertical ... ... New fire-box and uptake. ... Longitudinal tubular One new plate put in at blow-off cock. ... Longitudinal tubular Plate indented taken out and made good. ... Vertical ... ... To be repaired at bottom of shell. ... Portable ... ... Two longitudinal stays to be put in. ... Vertical ... ... : Cylinder to be taken off and rejointed. ... Cornish ... ... Plate in crown of furnace to be cut out and renewed. ... Vertical ... ... Mudholes to be repaired. ... Semi-portable ... Fire-box to be patched at bottom and a number of screwed ... Locomotive ... New steam-pipes. [stays put in. ... Longitudinal tubular Seams on top of shell to be caulked. ... Vertical ... ... Plate to be put on at bottom of shell. ... Cornish tubular ...; To be retubed. ... Portable .. ... Mudholes to be repaired. ... Portable .. ... Fusible-plug and patch on crown. ... Locomotive ... Eight screwed stays to be renewed and raudhole patched. ... Portable ... ... Outer fire-box to be partly sheathed. ... Semi-portable ... At corner and mudholes repaired, part of crown-seams to be rerivetted. ... Portable ... ... Two extra dog-stays to be fitted on crown of fire-box, and compensation-ring put round manhole. ... Portable ... ... A number of screwed stays to be renewed in fire-box. ... Lancashire ... Furnaces corroding, two small plates to be cut out and renewed, and also three others small. ... Semi-portable ... Condemned.

Date of Notice. I Class of Machinery, Parts requiring to be fenced. Nil ... Nil ... Nil.

Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name of Person Injured, Nature, of Accident. Fatal or not. Cause of Accident, nnd Remarks. J. Donaghy and Co., So' 1) u ne di n, 31st July, L889 Rope-spin- Edward lading ma- j wards, aged clii n e r y, 14 years last known as May drawingmachine Right a r m Not torn off at elbow 1 The boy at work stands in front of the machine where the fibre comes out and coils into his tub ; this place he has no business to leave without first stopping his machine, but, as the lad states himself, he saw something requiring to be taken out, for this purpose he went round the side of the machine and put his right hand underneath the endless-chain belt, when his arm was caught and torn off at the elbow. It was amputated above the elbow. I called at the works on the 1st August, but could offer no suggestions for future prevention.