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Name and Situation of Dredge. Owners. Dredge-master. Remarks. Date of Visit. Chicago Chicago Gold-dredging Company.. J. McDonald Only one buoy on board (forward) ; 2 ft. width added to each pontoon at Christmas-time, giving this dredge plenty of freeboard At work only four weeks, and not yet in good working-order ; a new eleotrio-light (Pactolus) self-con-tained engine and dynamo being installed, which is expected to be a great improvement To fenoe elevator driving wheel and belt, and sleeve required on end of shaft; four life-buoys on board ; working in bank; tailings becoming troublesome owing to height a :;,,. ry No boat-hooks in place ; all else in good order .. .. .. .. .. ••.:;.£•• 14/3/00 Perseverance Perseverance Gold-dredging Company Golden Point Gold-dredging Company Ngapara No. 1 Gold-dredging Company Enterprise Gold - dredging Company Molyneux Hydraulic Gold-dredging Company Clyde Gold-dredging Company .. S. Cameron 14/3/00 Golden Point G. R. McGregor .. 15/3/00 Ngapara No. 1 >.. Henry Schumann .. 15/3/00 Enterprise J. T. Ryan Only one boat-hook ; to protect clutch-lever ; otherwise in good order 15/3/00 Molyneux Hydraulio J. Dewar .. To fence well and stern of dredge; sleeve required end of shaft; boat requires some repairs 15/3/00 Moa W. Nicholson Sleeve required on main shaft; rail required on elevator gangway ; no boat-hooks or light-lines at bow or stern ; both boats in paddock on land side of dredge Stopped owing to main shaft being broken; no life-buoys, life-belts, or boat-hooks on board; no rules posted; one buoy in one boat, but no boat-hook or light-line in her; gave master verbal notice, and also wrote secretary that dredge was not to start till regulations were complied with ; visited dredge again on the 17th March, 1900, and found that my requirements of the 9th January had been complied with Starting-wheel on main shaft requires to be fenced ; second boat old and unsafe 15/3/00 Bengerburn, Moa Flat Bengerburn Gold-dredging Company E. A. Kitto 9/1/00 and 17/3/00 Sunlight, Island Block Sunlight Gold-dredging Company G. S. Hall 8/1/00 Roxburgh. Dunedin Dunedin Gold-dredging Company W. T. Weir One boat requires some repairs; generally well up to requirements 17/3/00 Manuherikia. Manorburn Manorburn Gold - dredging Company H. Leicester Putting in new pump and screen ; copy of rules wantonly defaced with dabs of red paint; only one boathock and no light-lines; stern arrangements require to be attended to; ladders of gangway to be renewed Only one worn-out life-buoy on board, one light-line, and no boat-hooks; gangway and rail required at end of screen Just started ; not yet in working-order Absolutely no compliance with rules; no rules posted; no life-buoys, boat hooks, or light-lines, and no boat; to put sleeve on end of crank-shaft; fence-rail required alongside driving-belt, and only a narrow plank across well, which is unfenoed Putting on new screen; no rules posted ; no life-buoys, boat-hooks, or light-lines, and no boat; to protect end of crank-shaft and fence driving-belt : g £■ *JS| Only one buoy and one boat-hook; no light-lines; rail required at stern; boat on river away from dredge 29/3/00 Morning Star Morning Star Gold-dredging Company Springvale Gold-dredging Company Galtee More Gold-dredging Company E. Ryan 29/3/00 Springvale (late Hyde's) .. Galtee More K. A. Denniston .. J. Cunningham 29/3/00 29/3/00 Nil Desperandum Nil Desperandum Gold-dredging Company Chatto Creek Gold dredging Company D. McMath 29/3/00 Chatto Creek G. P. Blue Cromwell. Electric No. 1, Kawarau River Magnetic, Kawarau River.. Ranfurly, Kawarau River Maori, Clutha River Junction Electric Gold-dredging Company Magnetio Gold-dredging Company Electric Gold-dredging Company Maori Gold-dredging Company .. Archibald Steel J. F. Kitto James McGeorge .. Frank Kitto To renew boat-hooks, light-lines, life-buoys, and to fenoe main driving-pulley ; working in slack water owing to current being too strong for dredge to cope with Dredge and appliances in good order No boat-hooks or light-lines bow or stern ; no boat-hooks in boats No boat-hooks or light-lines; to fence bevel-gearing and well; narrow and inefficient gangway for coaling No life-buoys in boats ; no boat-hooks or light-lines bow or stern; well requires fencing ; rail required at stern near streaming-down box; and dynamo-shaft to be covered. Wrote Mr. Ross on the 4th April, 1900, requiring him to attend to above immediately, as his dredge is working in one of the strongest "rips" on the river 8/3/00 8/3/00 8/3/00 8/3/00 Junction Electric, Kawarau Junction Electric Gold-dredging Company A. Ross 13/3/00