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

Return of Notices given to fence Dangerous Pacts of Machinery in the Otago Disteict during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1886.

;o ol ;ice. 'escnpi ;ion oi loi! .er. ;ure ol -epairs on lerei 1885. May 9 May 12 Portable ... Portable ... New pressure-gauge to be got. Tube-plate to be repaired; new stay-bolts in crown of firebox ; new pins in longitudinal stays. Compensation-ring to be put round hand-hole. New pressure-gauge; new blow-off cock and new test-cocks to be put on. Patch on crown of boiler, 2ft. x 3ft. Two mud-holes to be plated round. Two combustion-chambers to be patched. May 16 May 19 Cornish tubular Cornish ... July 13 Aug. 17 Aug. 18 Cornish tubular Vertical ... Double-furnace Cornish tubular Double-furnace Cornish tubular Aug. 18 Two bottoms to be renewed, 13ft. 9in. x 2ft. 6in.; two bottoms of combustion-chambers to be sheathed, with stays coming through ; two bottoms of smoke-boxes to be sheathed, with stays coming through; four lower and four upper man-holes to have compensation-rings put on, 4in. x -Jin. New stay between crown of fire-box and crown of shell. New blow-off cock. One plate to be renewed in No. 2 tube. Two plates to be renewed in No. 1 tube. Two test-cocks, and set of water-gauge fittings. Several scams to be caulked on top of boiler. Three bands, 4in. by -|in., to be rivetted round the shell; two angle iron-rings to be put round the tube, Sin. x 3in. x fin.; also one plate on top of shell to be cut out and renewed, and several plates taken out and straightened and replaced. Small crack in crown of fire-box to be primed and stayed. Plate over fire to be partly cut out and new piece put in. Aug. 26 Aug. 29 Sept. 28 Sept. 28 Oct. 20 Oct. 23 Nov. 18 Vertical tubular Longitudinal tubular Lancashire Lancashire Longitudinal tubular Longitudinal tubular Cornish ... Nov. 21 Nov. 23 Locomotive Longitudinal tubular 1886. Jan. 11 Feb. 22 Portable ... Steam-digesters A number of screwed stays to be renewed. Two new crowns to be put in, with new double angle-irons top and bottom, Sin. x 3in. x fin., also four new stays of ljin. in each, and new pressure-gauges. Notice to have tube scaled, being found in an unsafe condition. Two top angle-irons to be renewed; size 3in. x 3in. x fin. Compensation-ring to be put round man-hole; also gusset or palm-stay in front end-plate. New crown in fire-box. Mar. 8 Mar. 8 Mar. 11 Cornish boiler Steam-digester Cornish ... Mar. 11 Portable ...

Date of Notice. Class of Machinery. Parts requiring to bo fenced. 1885. Verbal. Jay 11 ... Jay 18 ... Jay 23 ... Engine Laying-shaft Brick-making machine Lower half of fly-wheel to be boxed up. Pinion of laying-shaft at passage to be fenced off. Laying-shalt to be boxed over, also spur-wheels to be fenced off. Bevel-wheels to be protected by a guard. une 22 ... 1886. feb. 24 ... Written. I'eb. 27 ... Vertical ... Engine Cranks and spur-wheel of engine to be fenced round. Engine Connecting-rod of engine and crank.