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Working Dredges visited by Inspector of Mines, Dunedin.

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Name and Situation of Dredge. Owners. Dredge-master. Remarks. Date of Visit. Olenore. Woolshed Gold-dredging Company Woolshed William Mercer Dredge well found ; machinery and appliances in good order ; pulley on pump-drive requires fencing, which master promised to do No boat; rule3 not posted ; no boat-hooks on dredge ; well unfenoed, and stream of water falling from a leaky pipe on to the gangway across well, making it slippery ; master not on board ; wrote him requiring compliance with regulations Gangway required across well, also fence round engine Two life-buoys on board, but found them inside engine-house, instead of being in their places at bow and stern 7/11/99 Stirling Stilling Gold-dredging Company.. John Nelson 7/11/99 Gold Bank Adam's Flat, Adam's Flat Gold Bank Gold-dredging Company Adam's Plat Gold-dredging Company A. Thomas George Pettigrew .. 7/11/99 7/11/99 Waipori Biver. Upper Waipori Upper Waipori Gold-dredging Company William Redpath .. Stopped temporarily for repairs; dredge sank 27th July owing to ice being frozen to hull, when thaw set in unequal strain started rivets; silt not yet out of pontoons; two very good boats ; dredge in very good working-order No boat-hooks or light-lines ; two buoys hanging on one nail aft .. No boat-hooks ; sleeve required on projecting end of engine crank-shaft. Visited by Mr. Hayes Dredge and everything about her in excellent order 12/12/99 Empire No. 1 .. Empire No. 2 Golden Shore Empire Gold-dredging Company.. G. Larking 12/12/99 12/12/99 12/12/99 Success Golden Shore Gold-dredging Company Success Gold-dredging Company.. J. G. A. Donaldson.. William Hanley .. One good boat, but no life-line or boat-hook in it; only one life-buoy and one boat-hook aboard; sleeve required on projecting end of crank-shaft Sleeve required on end of shaft; fly-wheel unfenoed ; no boat-hooks ; no light-lines ; no rules posted .. No boat; manager Btates that he cannot work with a boat owing to paddock being too small; no boathooks ; only one rail on main fly-wheel fence, which should have two rails Dredge and appliances in good order; ground poor ; two to three men casually employed making dams to float dredge, and making coal-roads through swamp 12/12/99 Perseverance Waipori Consolidated Jutland Flat McLeod and party Waipori Consolidated Gold-dredg-ing Company Jutland Flat Gold-dredging Company Thomas Aitken J. M. Walker A. B. Edmonds 12/12/99 12/12/99 13/12/99 Lawrence. Evans Flat, Evans Flat .. Evans Gold-dredging Company .. T. Gillespie Projecting end of shaft requires sleeve ; engine to be fenced, otherwise all in good order; face only 4 ft. deep, and artificial dam required to keep dredge afloat; ground previously turned over by Europeans and Chinese, notwithstanding which dredge getting about 2 oz. weekly Recently started after renewing dredge throughout, except pontoons, engine, and winches; weekly cost of running, 6 oz. ; average time, 130 hours per week Fence required round cranks and governors, and sleeve on end of shaft One buoy ; no light-lines ; to protect end of pump-shaft To fence pump driving-belt; ground worked previously by Europeans and Chinese 6/2/00 Lawrence (late Balclutha), Tuapeka Flat Tuapeka, Tuapeka Flat .. Tuapeka Flat, Tuapeka Flat Klondike, Wetherstone's Flat Imperial, Waitahuna Lawrence Gold-dredging Company A. Wakefield 6/2/00 Tuapeka Gold-dredging Company Harris and party Golden Bise Gold-dredging Company Imperial Gold-dredging Company John Donaldson .. J. P. Uren R. Young 6/2/00 6/2/00 7/2/00 George Scott Only one buoy ; no boat-hooks or light-lines ; to fence" engine- cranks ; bulk of claim worked ground .. 7/2/00 Alexandra. Golden Beach Golden Beach Gold-dredging ComA. McLean Working in bank; life-buoys, &c, on board, but not at stern as they should be ; generally in good order. This dredge continues to turn over an enormous quantity of material Working in mid-river; no life-buoy, boat-hook, or light-line at bows ; everything else in good order .. 14/3/00 Eureka No. 1 Earnscleugh No. 1 pany Eureka No 1 Gold-dredging Company Earnscleugh No. 1 Gold-dredging Company Earnscleugh No. 2 Gold-dredging Company Evan Butler 0. Weaver To fence fly-wheel of engine 14/3/00 14/3/00 Earnscleugh No. 2 J. Marshall All in good order; sluicing off 10 ft. of top stuff, silt, in advance of dredge. This dredge has a barge for coaling capable of holding 6 tons, which is a great convenience, and avoids the usual practice of having bags of coal lying in the thoroughfares 14/3/00