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Return of Machinery inspected in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1888.

Return of Accidents to Boilers and Machinery reported as having occurred in the Otago District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1888.

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Description of Machinery. Steam. Steam and Water. Description of Machinery. Steam. Steam and Water. Aerated water Agricultural implements Air-compressor Baths Bakeries Barbed-wire factory Boiling-down ... Boiler-maker ... Bone-mills Brass, copper, and lead works Brass shop Breaking metal Breweries Brick and tile works Beehive factory Cabinet-making Dement works Chaff-cutting ... Chemical works Cooperage Cocoa factory... Confectionery... Cooking Collieries Condensed milk Corn-crushers Coffee and spice works 1 7 1 1 5 1 4 1 3 2 1 1 12 6 1 5 1 7 2 1 1 3 2 7 1 2 2 20 1 1/1 2 1 2 5 6 2 1 1 7 8 2 1 3 1 1 Gasworks Gold-mining ... Graving-dock Hoists Hydraulic lifts Joineries Lapidary Lathmaker ... Laundries Lead-pipe works Locomotives ... Machine shops Merry-go-round Meat-preserving Parchment works Paper-mills ... Potteries Pipe-clay works Printing-papers Pumping water Refrigerating works Road-roller ... Ropeworks ... Rolling-mills Sausage-skins Sausage machines Saw-mills Soapworks ... Soap and candle works Sheep-dip works Standard works ... Stone-crushers Stone-dressing Tanneries Tramway cable Traction-engines ... Threshing machines ... Turning, wood Venetian blinds Wool-pressing Woollen factories Wool-mat factories, fancy Woodware factories Wood-working 2 2 1 19 4 1 1 3 2 8 3 1 2 1 1 2 3 6 3 2 1 1 1 1 8 30 2 3 2 4 6 1 3 2 8 77 3 1 5 4 2 5 5 "54* 1 Cranes Creosote works Dairy factories Dredges Dyeworks Elevators Engine-shops Engine-shops and foundries Foundries, cast-iron Foundries, malleable cast Floating-dock Fellmougeries Flour-mills Flock-mills ... Fish-preserving Fire-grate and range works Firewood-cutting Fire-engine 6 * B water onl

Date of Accident. Name and Address of Owners. Nature and Cause of Accident. 1887. ict. 21 J. H. Dawson and Sons, Waihopai Longitudinal tubular boiler fired externally; bottom plate o; shell at back end of boiler cracked through accumulation o: dirt. Longitudinal tubular boiler; one of three had dropped dowr in front end about 10in., leaving the upper row of tubes bare at back end ; contraction and expansion. ■ec. 29 Messrs. Findlay and Co., Dunedin