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Return of Machinery inspected in the Otago District — continued.
Return of Defects found on the Inspection of Boilers and Fittings in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1886.
Return of Accidents to Boilers and Machinery reported as having occurred in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1886.
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Description of Machinery. Stoam Steam, i and Water. Description of Machinery, Steam. Steam and Water. Firewood-cutting Fire-engine Fruit-preserving Gas works Hoists Hydraulic lifts Joineries Lapidary Laundries Locomotives ... Lathmaker Lead-pipe works Lime hydraulic works ... Machine shops Oil-mill, linseed Paper-: nills Pottery Pipe works, clay Printing-papers Pumping water 1 1 2 2 22 4 6 1 2 !() 1 2 1 6 1 1 1 3 5 5 Eope works ... Saw-mills Seed-dressing Soap works ... Soap and candle works Standard works Steam roller (road) Stone-crushers Stone-dressing Stone-cutting Tanneries Tramway cable Threshing machines Traction-engines Turnery, wood Venetian blinds Winding Wool-pressing Woollen factories Woodware factories 1 42 1 3 3 2 1 6 1 2 4 2 122 8 5 1 8 4 4 3 'a i
lescnp; ;ion. langerous. mary. Blow-off cocks Boilers (furnace-tubes) corroded Bottoms of shells leaking Bottoms of combustion-chambers thin ... Bottom plates of shells thin Corrosion, internal Corrosion, external ... Digesters, steam, corrosion of shells and angle-iron Digesters, steam, corrosion of angle-irons Fire-box, crown cracked Gauges, pressure Gauges, water Hand-holes weak Man-hole weak Mud-holes weak, leakage Plate cracked through scale Plate pitted through corrosion... Seams leaky Shell-plates sprung by fire Screwed stays in fire-box corroded Stay, vertical, corroded Test-cocks renewed ... "2 i 2 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 3 2 *2 2 2 3 4 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 i 4 1 1 i l "i * Totals ... 11 30 41
Date of Name and Address of N t d c f Aocident . Accident. Owner. Date of Accident. Nature find Cause of Accident. _ b __ !3rd Septem- N.Z. Implement Com- j Leakage in bottom of shell through wasting of plates, caused ber, 1885 pany, Dunedin by damp arising from the ground. !3rd Novem- Fleming and Gilkison, Plate in bottom of shell cracked through accumulation of ber, 1885 Invercargill scale, fired externally.