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No. 7. —Return of Accidents which proved fatal in connection with Machinery during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1899.

No. B.—Eetuen of Tkaction- and Locomotive-enoune Dbivees to whom Ceetificates of Seevice have been gbanted from Ist April, 1898, to 31st March, 1899. No. ana Name of Person. Date of Issue. No. and Name of Person. Date of Issue. 1898. 1898. 472. Eobert Troughear .. .. .. April 26 488. Peter Smith .. .. .. .. Nov. 8 473. Alexander Leith .. .. .. ,26 489. Charles Barnes .. .. .. „ 8 474. William Bradshaw .. .. .. „ 26 490. James Robson .. .. .. .8 475. Angus Fraser .. .. .. ,26 491. George Edward Webby .. .. .8 476. George McDonald .. .. .. ,26 492. Edward Durston .. .. .. ,8 477. Thomas Shaw .. .. .. ,26 493. Walter Cooper Smith.. .. .. ,8 478. Thomas Pairburn .. .. .. ,26 494. Cecil George Kern .. .. .. .8 479. Archibald MoDonald.. .. .. „ 26 495. Charles MoPherson .. .. .. 8 480. John Bradshaw .. .. .. May 21 1899. 481. Joseph Edward Hills .. .. „ 21 496. Stewart Richmond .. .. .. Mar. 7 482. Patrick Walsh .. .. .. ,21 497. Francis Charles Hill.. .. .. .7 483. Alfred Leipst .. .. .. Nov. 8 498. Martin Kennedy .. .. .. ,7 484. Donald Gillanders .. .. .. .8 499. Robert Edmund Judaon .. .. ,7 485. Frederick West Baldey .. .. ,8 500. James Judson .. .. .. ,7 486. William Aston .. .. .. ,8 501. Robert Thomas Button .. .. 7 487. Thomas Perks .. .. .. 8 502. George Foster .. .. .. , 7

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Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name and Age of Person injured. Nature of Accident, and Date. Cause of Accident, and Remarks. )rainage Board, Chris tchurch Pumping sewage .. David Hood; aged 65 Rib broken, lung pierced; 19th Sept., 1898 Foot slipped when oiling air-pump; fell over discharge-pipe; flange of pipe broke a rib, end of which pierced left lung. The floor and pipe were greasy, and, as the maohinery in motion was high up, there was no chance of hie falling on to that. Going too near belt after removing it from fly-wheel, and while the belt was still in motion, was caught in it and wound round the shaft. The boy had to be taken to the Napier Hospital (a distance of twenty-six miles), where he died. He should have stopped the machinery before tampering with the belt. Failure of brake on winding-engine to act through oil getting on same from bearing alongside. This bearing had been running hot, and an excess of oil had been used to cool it down, and some of it had found its way on to brakepulley, which spoiled its efficiency. Although warned never to interfere with belts, deceased caught hold of belt, which had commenced to lap round shaft double, to free it, and was pulled round the shaft. There was a flint-and-loose pulley on intermediate shafting for the purpose of stopping the gear if anything went wrong in this branch of the work, and in interfering with the belt while the machinery was in motion he was going against his instructions. Through deceased trying to replace a belt while machinery was in motion. The deceased was sharpening tools at the grindstone in the dinner-hour. An unusual noise was heard in the mill. Another employe, on going in, as severely crushed, and died in a few lental death was returned at the inquest. notice was given to the owners to protect the grindstone-belt, which was not oonin speed. With the very slightest oare osephKing, Pohui :Stcam sawmill Walter King; aged 16 Caught by belt, and dragged across pulley; 18th Oct., 1898 Winding .. John Mason .. Struck by cage while working at bottom of shaft; 14th Feb., 1899 lonsolidated Goldfields (Limited), Reefton Iruce Wool-manu-facturing Company, Milton Wool-squeezer Walter Hislop; aged 44 Ribs crushed into heart, and feet cut off; 2nd March, 1899 '. Westwood and Flaxmill .. Oo., Foxton >avy Brothers, Sawmill Taupirl Fred. Walker; aged 24 George J. Worthington; aged 44 11th March, 1899 Body severely crushed; 31st Jan., 1899 found deceased entangli minutes from the effects At the inspection of the 1 the parts considered dar sidered dangerous, being the accident should not '. 3d in the grinds of the injuries. xiiler in Decembe igerous, but this ; one of the sim have happened. itone-belt. Hβ wi A verdiot of accid it, 1898, a written did not include I plost and slowest