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ACCIDENTS, LEGAL DECISIONS, ETC., UNDEE FACTOEIES ACT EEPOBTED DURING THE YEAE 1896-97. ACCIDENTS. Auckland (46).— Three men employed by Kauri Timber Company: two slightly cut with circular saw ; the other, a stoker, had his arm burned by a flash of fire from the furnace of a boiler. One man employed at a biscuit-factory had his arm severely crushed by putting it into a mixingmachine in motion, contrary to rules of factory. One man employed at railway workshops : finger slightly jammed with a trolly which he was using. One man employed in a furniture-factory : slight cut on thumb by circular saw. One man, a baker : hand crushed in mixing-machine. Two men employed at gas-works fell off a ladder and injured themselves slightly. A lad, fifteen years of age: hand severely crushed in rolling-machine driven by hand-power. A man employed at washing bottles had his hand badly cut by a bursting bottle. A man employed by Kauri Timber Company : slight cut on fingers through contact with planing-machine. A lad, seventeen years of age, employed by Colonial Sugar-refining Company : slight injury to arm through getting his hand entangled in bags in the filter. A man employed at a sawmill: slight cut by contact with circular saw. A man employed at Sugar Company's works severely scalded by slipping into hot-water tank. Two men employed at a furniture-factory slightly cut on thumbs by contact with circular saw and knife of moulding-machine. A boy, sixteen years of age, slightly burned by wax taking fire. A girl, seventeen years of age, employed at Colonial Ammunition Factory : severe injury to hand through cartridge exploding whilst she was extracting the cap from a condemned cartridge. A man employed by plumber: serious injury to both wrists caused by adjusting a mouldingmachine in motion. A lad, seventeen years of age, employed by Kauri Timber Company : serious rupture through heavy lifting. A lad, fourteen years of age, apprentice fitter in railway workshops : slight injury to finger of left hand, caught in tyre drill. A lad, seventeen years of age, apprentice turner in railway workshops : slight injury to thumb and forefinger, which caught between fixed cest and grindstone. Two men employed at a sawmill: one slightly cut by circular saw ; the other a slight injury to foot through trolly passing over it. A lad, fifteen years of age, at Kauri Timber Company : slight cut with treadle-saw. Two men employed by Colonial Sugar Company : one severely injured through falling from roof of building; the other severely bruised through bag of sugar falling on him. A lad, fifteen years of age, employed at Kauri Timber Company : slight cut by lathe which he was working. A lad, fifteen years of age, employed by rope and twine company : hand slightly crushed by contact with rollers. A man employed by Colonial Sugar Company : slight injury to hand. A man employed at a stovefactory had small bone of arm broken through a range which he was lifting slipping. A man employed by Kauri Timber Company was accidentally struck on the arm with a hammer. A man employed at a sawmill: killed by falling over a breastwork. A lad, fifteen years of age, employed at a biscuit-factory : severe injury to hand through putting it into mixing-machine whilst in motion. A lad, fifteen years of age, employed by Kauri Timber Company : slight cut by planingmachine. A lad, sixteen years of age, employed at a sawmill: hand slightly injured through being jammed. A man employed at Kauri Timber Company : slight out in hand by circular saw. A man employed at coach-factory : slight injury to thumb, caught in planing-maehine. Two lads, sixteen years of age, employed by Kauri Timber Company : slight cut by circular saw in each case. A man employed at furniture-factory : slight cut with planing-machine. A man employed at a sawmill: slight cut by circular saw. A message-boy employed by Auckland Evening Star Company : slightly injured with hydraulic lift. A lad, fifteen years of age, employed by Kauri Timber Company: slight cut by circular saw. A woman employed at clothing-factory : slight injury caused by machine-needle being driven through her finger. In every case these accidents have been of a purely accidental nature. Christchurch (21). —Two men employed at foundry: one slightly cut by band-saw ; the other by a chip of steel striking his eye. A lad employed at baking-powder factory : slight injury to hand by being caught in press. A girl employed at a boot-factory : severe injury to scalp through her hair being caught on driving-shaft. A man employed at Canterbury Foundry : slight injury to thumb caught in lathe. A man employed at Belfast Freezing-works : slight injury to head by a brick falling on him. A man employed in a furniture-factory : hand severely cut by coming into contact with a circular saw. A man employed in a cabinetmaker's factory: severe cut on left wrist through a chisel slipping. A man employed by agricultural - implement makers lost forefinger of right hand through putting his hand to die of steam hammer whilst in motion. A man employed in bacon-factory lost top of finger through being caught in cross-head of refrigerator. Three men employed at Canterbury Foundry : one leg badly bruised through iron plate falling on him; another had his arm cut by being caught between two cylinders he was assisting to load into a cart; the other slightly bruised his hand through a piece of iron falling on it. A man employed at Woolston Tannery : slight injury to thumb through being caught in basilmachine. A lad employed at Canterbury Foundry : left hand severely crushed through adjusting dies on screw-machine whilst in motion. A man employed at agricultural-implement works lost top of thumb of left hand through contact with circular saw. A boy employed at a sawmill: slight injury to thumb of left hand through contact with moulding-machine. A man employed at Kaiapoi Mills : slight injury to hand through a truck passing over it. A man killed at the Zealandia Candleworks through cask of tallow falling on him. Two men employed at Addington Railway