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Return of Notices given to Repair Boilers in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ending 31st March, 1890.

Return of Accidents to Boilers and Machinery reported as having occurred in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1890.

Date. Description of Boiler. Notice. Particulars of Bepairs. 1889. April 3 May 8 Vertical... ... Written Portable ... Verbal To rejoint check-valve and sludge-doors. To renew gauge-mountings, and expand eight tubes. May 25 •I line 8 July 2 Vertical... ... Verbal Portable ... Verbal Cornish ... ... Verbal To remove one tube and plug-holes. To recaulk bottom corner of fire-box. To chip and recaulk ring-seam of shell in bottom flue. Aug. 12 Aug- 15 Traction ... Verbal Semi-tubular ... Verbal To renew crown of fire-box. To renew tubes, also to rivet new plate on shell where cracked. (This crack was caused by a fall during erection.) A new pressure-gauge. To renew top end of stays. New set of tubes, including stay-tubes. New set of tubes. To cut out crack in fire-box and fit a new plate with the six-screwed stays passing through now plate, as directed. New pressure-gauge. To renew top ends of stays. To remove blow-off cock to another part of boiler, and patch over present seat. To rivet strengthening-ring on man-hole, also to renew angle-iron ring and top ends of stays in vat. Aug. 22 Aug. 27 Oct. 2 Oct. 11 Oct. 14 Vertical... ... ' Verbal Vat ... ... Verbal Portable ... Written Portable ... Written Portable ... Written Oct. 15 Oct. 16 Dec. 2 Cornish ... ... Written Vat ... ... Verbal Vertical... ... Verbal Dec. 8 Vertical and vat ... Verbal Dec. 3 1890. Jan. 14 Jan. 21 Vertical... ... Verbal New angle-iron ring in neck of uptake. Feb. 19 Portable ... Written Locomotive ... Written Portable ... Written New set of tubes. To renew or properly repair fire-box, also renew skirt of shell at fire-box. New end-plate in shell of boiler, also new endplate in lire-box. Cut out cracked plate in mouth of fire-box, and rivet on new plate. New pressure-gauge. Feb. 19 Portable ... Written Feb. 28 Portable ... Verbal

l>ato of Accident, Owner's Name and Address. Nature and Cause of Accident. 1889. April 9 . W. Cudden, Fendalton Flour-mill burnt down. Boiler not injured ; requires steamand water-gauges renewed. Reported boiler injured in furnace. Found furnace partial collapse, caused by thick scale-deposit on plates of furnace from not having been properly cleaned out. Reported vertical tubular boiler cracked on top. Found crown-plate required renewing. Caused by tubes being too crowded in boiler. Reported crown of fire-box of traction-engine down. Found crown required to be renewed. Caused by lowness of water. Reported Cornish boiler leaking in furnace. Found collapse of furnace from lowness of water; found top had been bare of water from end to end. Several plates had to be renewedi Reported a leak in bottom to tubular boiler. Found a crack; had plate renewed. Caused by dirt. Reported bulge in furnace of Lancashire boiler. Found a bulge just above bars, caused by a deposit on inside, thus keeping the water away from plate. Boilers were dirtyinside. April 18 . Press Company, Christchurch J tine 2 I Lunatic Asylum, Christchurch Aug. 12 . John Brown, Christchurch Nov. 18 , E. H. Banks, Christchurch 1890. Jan. 25 . Bowron Brothers, Woolston Christchurch Meat Company, Islington Mar. 6 .