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Return of Number of Notices given to repair Boilers in the Wellington District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1885.

Return of Accidents to Boilers and Machinery reported as having occurred in the Wellington District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1885.

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District, and Date of Notice. Description of Boiler. Nature of Repairs ordered. Wellington— 1884. April 2P Fire-box ... The mud-hole door at smoke-box end repaired, and two new screw-stays fitted in fire-box. Three new tubes, and new nut on stay. Crown of flue set up. Seven rivets in gusset-stays. Covering-plate on corroded part of shell where blow-off cook is fitted. New crown in flue, and new angle-iron at each end. New lum-leg to be fitted. Sept. 22 Dec. 3 Dec. 20 Dec. 22 1885. Jan. 6 Jan. 22 Multitubular Cornish* ... Cylindrical shell Cornish ... Cornish ... Vertical and tube ... Maelboeough— 1884. June 10 Lancashire One of the angle-iron rings connecting the flue and the shell screwed half round, and small blister on bottom repaired. Crack in tube-plate patched, and tube-ends expanded. Three new dog-stays on fire-box crown. July 5 July 5 Multitubular Portable ... Nelson Noeth— 1884. Aug. 7 Oct. 22 Vertical shell Portable ... Flange of lum-leg repaired. Patch on front of fire-box shell. Taeanaki— 1884. Nov. 6 Multitubular Blistered plate removed and new one fitted. Hawse's Bat— 1885. Jan. 28 Feb. 12 Portable ... Vertical, Field's patent Cornish ... Cornish" ... Tube-ends in fire-box expanded. The lower part of fire-box faced and caulked. Feb. 16 Feb. 16 A stay to be fitted between shell and crown of flue. The crown of flue set up or fitted with an angle-iron girder-stay. * Dangerous

Date of Accident. Name and Address of Owner. Nature and Cause of Accident. Dec. 3, 1884 Feb. 16, 1885 The Wellington Meat ! Partial collapse of furnace-flue, caused, in my opinion, Export Company by the fire-bars and brick bridge being too high, thus (Limited), Welling- j causing the heat of the furnace to impinge on that ton i particular part. Nelson Bros.' Freez- ! Partial collapse of furnace-flue, caused partly from the ing Works,Tamona, i bridge being too high, and partly on account of the Hawke's Bay. deposit of lime allowed to gather on the plate.