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Return of Notices given to repair Boilers in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1886.

Return of Notices given to fence Dangerous Parts of Machinery in the Auckland District , during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1886.

;ico. 'ascription o: Soil ler. ;uro o: .opairs on [era 1885. April 21 April 30 June 8 June 16 June 18 June 24 July 7 July 7 Cornish ... Portable ... Locomotive Longitudinal tubular Longitudinal tubular Vertical flue Longitudinal tubular Longitudinal tubular Patch on bottom renewed. Patch fitted to plate at sludge-hole. Four suspension-stays fitted to stay-bars on top of fire-box. Two new tubes fitted. New safety-valve, and one fore-and-aft stay fitted. Patch fitted to the fractured part of vertical flue. Fractured part of plate in mud-receiver repaired. Blistered part of plate in mud-receiver cut out and patch fitted. Ee-tubed. Thirteen new tubes, and patch fitted to defective part of foretube plate. The bottom renewed. Was found in a dangerous state. Strengthening-ring fitted to man-hole. Plate at two sludge-holes patched. Ee-tubed. Six seams caulked. Three seams caulked, and several rivets renewed. Patch fitted to shell, ditto to combustion-chamber, and two seams caulked. Two patches fitted to the lower part of the fire-box. Two plates in the bottom renewed. The bottom renewed. Was found in a dangerous state. Two stays in fire-box renewed. Four seams caulked, and two angle-iron rings fitted to furnaceflue. The plate at two sludge-holes patched. Ee-tubed. Screw-patch fitted to tube-plate and stay to fire-box. To be re-tubed. New safety-valve fitted. Part of one plate in bottom renewed. July 11 July 21 Locomotive Portable ... July 24 Aug. 25 Aug. 28 Sept. L8 Oct. 10 Oct. 10 Oct. 26 Cornish Longitudinal tubular Portable ... Vertical tubular Cylindrical Cylindrical Longitudinal tubular Oct. 28 Nov. 5 Nov. 11 Nov. 11 Nov. 18 Portable ... Cornish ... Cornish ... Portable ... Cornish Dec. 9 Dec. 11 Dec. 12 Dec. 15 Dec. 17 Dec. 18 1886. Jan. 8 Jan. 9 Jan. 13 Vertical tubular Vertical tubular Vertical tubular Vertical tubular Vertical tubular Cornish ... Feb. 6 Feb. 11 Feb. 17 Feb. 18 Mar. 5 Longitudinal tubular Vertical tubular Vertical flue Longitudinal tubular Cornish ... Vertical tubular Vertical tubular Longitudinal tubular Screw-patch fitted to mud-receiver. Three tubes renewed. Blow-off cock renewed, and fusible plug fitted to crown of furnace. 3trengthening-ring fitted to man-hole. Three plates in shell and one in furnace-flue renewed. Patch fitted to lower part of the shell. Patch fitted to plate at sludge-hole. Ten screw-stays fitted to fire-box, and two patches in ditto renewed. Two fore-and-aft stays renewed. Mar. 30 Longitudinal tubular Note, —The fittings won attended to in many cases during my visit.'—W. J. J.

Date of Notice. Description of Machinery. Parts required to be fenced. 1885. April 20 ... June 16 July 15 ... Aug. i> ... Flour-mill Iron works Saw-mill ... Saw-mill ... Two driving-belts leading through the floor of drying-room. Pulley and belt of fan-blast. Two lengths of shafting and five belts. Fly-wheel of breaking-down saw, one length of shafting, and two belts. Safety-gear to be fitted. Fly-wheel of gas-engine. Front of engine and belt. Pair of pinion-wheels of reversing-gear. Driving-belt of brick-making machine and driving-b?lt of plas« tic machine. Aug. 6 ... Aug. 7 ... Aug. 19 ... Aug. 29 ... Aug. 31 ... Hydraulic lift Tobacco factory Chaft'-cutting Dredging machinery Brick and tile works