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Return of Notices given to Repair Boilers in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1891.

Return of Accidents to Life and Limb which have occurred in connection with Boilers and Machinery in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1891.

Date. Description of Boiler. Notice. Particulars of Repairs. 1830. April 8 April 26 May 14 May 26 June 19 Lancashire Cornish ... Portable Portable Tram-engine Verbal Written Verbal Verbal Verbal To force up collapsed furnaces. To renew plates over fire, also front angle-iron. New spring-balance on safety-valve. Bottom plates of shell to be renewed. Eenew side of fire-box, also ten stays in back of fire-box. To renew front angle-iron on flue. To renew plates on bottom of shell. To renew pressure-gauge. To clean inside of boiler and expand tubes. To renew side of fire-box, also screwed-stays in front and back of fire-box. To renew part of furnace-crown, also pressureJuly 3 July 10 July 17 July 22 July 22 Cornish ... Vertical... Vertical... Portable Tram-engine Written Verbal Verbal Written Verbal July 28 Portable, Verbal Aug. 5 Aug. 27 Sept. 1 Sept. 1 Oct. 2 Oct. 10 Oct. 15 Oct. 26 1891. Jan. 14 Tram-engine Cornish ... Semi-tubular Semi-tubular Tubular... Traction Locomotive Portable Verbal Verbal Verbal Verbal Verbal Verbal Written Verbal gauge. To renew patch in fire-box and several screwedstays. To renew plates in furnace over fire. To chip and recaulk ring-seam on bottom. To renew four tubes. To renew two plates on bottom in furnace. To withdraw tubes in order to clean boiler. To renew fire-box and skirt of shell. To renew pressure-gauge. Feb. 6 Feb. 20 Feb. 23 Feb. 27 Mar. 2 Lancashire Portable Portable Vertical... Portable Vertical... Verbal Verbal Verbal Written Verbal Verbal To fit girders with bolts to collapsed furnaces, temporary repair furnaces to be renewed, pressure reduced meantime. To repair longitudinal stay broken. To fit four screwed stays through bulge in fire-box. To renew bottom-plates of shell. To lift cylinder and renew joints on top of boiler. To.renew crown-plates and tubes.

Name and Address of Owner. Description Name and Age of of Person Machinery. injured. Nature of Accident. Fatal or not. Cause of Accident and Remarks, I I I G. J. F. Lublow, Ashburton Flax-mill, -—Patterson, water an adult, power age not given Wrist bones broken Not A belt having come off one of the machines the water was turned off the water-wheel for the purpose of adjusting, but before the machinery was at rest Patterson took hold of belt, when his arm became entangled, and bones broken. Part of this machinery was running by water-power. Stevens, the engine-driver, was passing the end of counter-shaft with a bundle of tow to light the engine fire, when the tow got entangled. The end of shaft had been well protected by my instructions, but had been removed by Stevens and never replaced. Driving-belt of stripper having come off Watson tried to put it on again himself when his left hand got caught in pinions of feedrollers. Machinery is all well protected, and no one excepting the fireman is allowed to interfere with the belts. Watson was not a regular hand, and appeared not to be aware of this rule. Flax-mill, John Stevens, steam and elderly man Arm severely torn; arm since amputated lharles Chinnery, Rangiora Flax-mill, steam and water Not lharles Chinnery, Rangiora Flax-mill, steam E. Watson, aged 16 years Left arm broken; hand since amputated Not power i