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Return of Accidents to Boilers and Machinery reported as having occurred in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1891.

Return of Notices given to remove Dangerous parts of Machinery in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1891.

Approximate Coat of Paper.- -Preparation (not given); printing 1,500 oopies), C 35 ]<i«

By Authority : Georgk Didbbobt, Government Printer, Wellington. 1891 Price, Is.]

Date of Accident. Name and Address of Owners. Nature anil Cause of Accident. 1890. uly 26 ... Southland Frozenmeat and Export Company, Bluff Harbour Three crowns down, as well as aides, came in above level of firebars. Boiler length, 20ft.; length of furnace, 8ft. 9in., up to the first galloway tubes; diameter of fiue, 2ft. 8in. ; plate, fin. pressure 601b. I examined the boilers on the 26th July, in their places, at Bluff Harbour, and also when the plates were cut out, at Invercargill, on. the 28th July, and found them all covered with a strong coating of oil (Englebert's) right round the flues, and causing partial collapse right round to the firebars. Crown of furnace came down through shortness of water. Extent of damage to first plate in furnace: length of indent, 3ft. Sin.; width of indent, 1ft. (Sin.; depth of indent, (Sin. Without any fracture. Cornish tubular (steel) boiler. 1891. arch 26 ... Messrs. M. Begg and Co., Hindon

il ] Date of Notice. I Name and Address of Owner. Nature of Machinery and Cause of Removal. ... Nil ... ... ... Nil.