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Return showing Fees payable for the Inspection of Boilers and Machinery in the Canterbury and Nelson South Districts during the Financial Year ending the 31st March, 1888.

Notb.—There are 14 maximum fees, including 37 boilers.

Return of Machinery inspected during the Financial Year ending the 31st March, 1888.

Return of Notices given to fence Dangerous Parts of Machinery in the Canterbury District during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1888.

Name of District. Fees payable in respect of Boilers. Fees payable in respect of Machinery. Total. Janterbury lelson South £ s. d. 547 0 0 10 0 0 £ 2 s. d. 0 0 £ 549 10 s. d. 0 0 0 0 Totals 557 0 0 2 0 0 559 0 0

i CD _ CO c . _ k fl-S M o a! Description of Machinery. a a CD _ 9 _ _ > -_ r CO Description of Machinery. 3 C CO C Bacon factory ... Biscuit factories Breweries Bone-mill Boiling-down ... Brick and pottery works... Dhemical works Dhaff-cutting ... _heese and butter factories _ordials and confectioners' Ziollieries _oach-building ... 1 2 8 1 11 5 2 2-1 3 4 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 4 7 3 9 24 2 2 Lifts for goods ... Landing service (Nelson South Laundry Linseed oil and fibre works Meat-preserving Nail-making Printing Pumping Eoad-roller Saw-mills Sausage-chopping Soap-boiling Stone-sawing and -breaking Threshing [Traction-engines] * Tram-engines ... Tanneries Waterlifts and baths Wood-turning ... Wool-washing ... Wool-dumping ... Woollen mills ... Winches and cranes 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 19 22 4 2 104 [42] 7 3 4 9 4 3 2 11 2 Cooperage Coffee and chicory works Dock and slip ... Dredging (Priestman's) ... Electric lighting Fire-engines Firewood-sawing Flax-mills Flour-mills Foundries and ironworks Freezing works. 3-asworks "2 1 3 * The forty-two traction-engines are included in " Threshing," and are independent of the thirty-seven reported last year.

Date of Notice. Description of Machinery. Notice. Parts required to be fenced. 1887. day 11 une 9 "uly 11 Sawing, &c. Chemical works Printing ... Verbal Verbal Verbal To protect fly-wheel of engine and saw-belt. To protect belt of bone-mill. To protect fly-wheel of engine, and sheet-iron covers over all the small gearing of printing machine. To fence mill-race to water-wheel. To hoop-ends of scutcher-drum. To protect fly-wheel of engine, and bridge ovei lying-shaft. To fence dam and upright shaft. To protect belts (erection not completed). )ot. 17 )ct. 19 STov. 16 Flour-mill Flax-mill ... Landing-service Written Verbal Verbal tfov. 30 Dec. 18 1888. fan. 16 Flour-mill Flour-mill Verbal Verbal Flour-mill Written To protect two lying-shafts, belts, and bevelgearing (water-power). To protect fly-wheel of engine. Counter-shaft to be straitened and to have proper pillow-blocks; new horses for same gearing on water-wheel and pulleys to be protected; and fence, 4ft. high, full length oi counter-shaft. ran. 20 dar. 17 Machine-shop Flax-mill (steam and water) Verbal Written