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Return of Machinery inspected in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ending the 31st March, 1887.

Return of Notices given to repair Boilers in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ending the 31st March, 1887.

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Description of Machinery. Steam and Water. Description of Machinery. Steam and Water. Water. Steam. Water. Steam. Asphalte works Baths Boiling-down ... Butchers' Breweries Bone-mills Cabinetmaking and woodturning Cheese and butter factories Chemical works Cordial-making and confectioners' 1 1 7 '20 11 3 7 2 2 5 2 12 24 Q O 1 1 3 2 1 8 1 Flour-mills Flock-mill Flax-mills Foundries and ironworkers' Freezing works. Gasworks Landing service Linseed oil and fibre works Meat-preserving Pottery and brick works... Printing Pumping Eope works Stone-sawing and -breaking Saw-mills Soapworks Threshing [Traction-engines] * Tannery Tramway-engines Woollen-mills ... Wool-pressing ... Wool-washing ... 9 1 4 23 2 2 1 1 2 5 1 4 1 2 29 5 122 [37] 1 6 3 3 2 Cooperage Cranes and winches Chaff-cutting ... Coffee and chicory works Concrete-mixing Colliery Coach-building... Dock and slip ... Electric light ... Firewood-sawing Fire-engine 1 * Thirty-sevi m tractii in-engim are included in " Threshing."

Date. Description of Boiler. Notice. Repairs ordered. "" 1886. 21 ... "une 29 ... "une 14 ... uly 12 ... uly 13 ... >LUg. 14 ... ing. 24 ... Sept. 16 ... Sept. 22 ... )ct. 4 ... )ct. 20 ... Portable Cornish Vertical Tram-engine Tram-engine Vertical Vertical Portable Tram-engine Cornish Portable Verbal ... Verbal Written ... Verbal Verbal ... Verbal ... Verbal ... Written ... Verbal Verbal ... Verbal ... Cut out crack and rivet on patch in fire-box. Becaulk seam on bottom of shell in flue. New uptake and sludge-doors repaired. Enlarge patches in furnace, and renew stays. Enlarge patches in furnace, and renew stays. New crown-plate and tubes. New fire-box, and foundation-ring raised. New set of tubes. Take out fire-box and properly repair. Three stays in domes (two boilers). Large-headed rivets in furnace-mouth covering cracks, and reduced pressure to 401b. New end-plate and tubes (since out of use). Expand and re-ferrule tubes, also clean boiler thoroughly. New pressure-gauge. Eenew top row of fire-box stays, also new tubes. )ct. 27 ... 16 ... Tubular Portable Verbal Written ... 25 ... )ec. 23 ... 1887. an. 10 ... an. 28 ... an. 29 ... Portable Portable Verbal ... Written ... Tubular Portable' Cornish Verbal ... Verbal ... Written ... Cut out cracked plate, and renew plate. Eenew top row of fire-box stays. Properly chip and recaulk seam over fire (two boilers); also renew rivets, leaking at present. New fire-box and uptake, also pressure-gauge. Eenew six tubes. New pressure-gauge. New pressure-gauge. Eenew stays and washers. Four more stays and washers. New crown-plate and three new stays. reb. 18 ... feb. 24 ... i'eb. 24 ... feb. 25 ... £ar. 16 ... £ar. 18 ... ilar. 16 ... Vertical Portable Portable Portable Vat Vat Vat Verbal Written ... Verbal ... Verbal ... Written ... Written ... Verbal ...