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No. 5. —Return of Accidents (not Fatal) in connection with Machinery during the Financial Year ending the 31st March, 1905.

Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name and Age of Person injured. Date and Nature of Accident. Cause of Accident, and Remarks. I John Kings!and and Co., Bootmakers, Inveroargill Rollers William Fearn; aged 40 y8th May, 1904 : slight bruise on arm Own fault. The attendant went under guard, although warned not to do so, just before the accident occurred. Mishap. Cutting firewood. Saw refused a round hard piece of wood, causing it to act as a screw, drawing fingers into saw. Mishap. Cage dropped. Cage was supposed to have been jambed on the guides, or by counterpoise-weight rope, on a level with the third floor. The cage-rope by some means having slacked and come off the pulley, the man injured jumped on the cage, when it immediately dropped to the ground floor. Own fault. He attempted to remove with hia fingers a chip from edge of saw while in motion. Carelessness. Reaching up without looking, he put his fingers between bevel-wheels of the drilling machine he was attending to at the time of accident. Mishap. The injured man states that his foot slipped, and, extending his hand to save himself, he placed it in the way of the revolving knives of the machine he was working at the time. Carelessness. The injured man went inside rail to put on the belt on water-scutoher while the maohinery was in motion. His coat caught on oollar of shaft. Mishap. His foot slipped, and his arm was drawn into the water-scutcher and was badly crushed. Carelessness. Attempting to clean connecting - rod of engine while in motion. Carelessness. Using his hand instead of the tongs. The plate sprang up and jambed his thumb against the machine. Mishap. His hand beoame entangled in hank of fibre and was drawn into scutoher. The soutcher was fitted with safety mouth-piece. Mishap. While shifting belt of lathe, a rudder-arm, which he was boring out, struck him on the shoulder. Mishap. His hand was caught in leather-rollers. He reversed machine himself and freed his hand, which was badly torn. Carelessness. Stewart was putting a belt on a clutoh-pulley while machinery was in motion. Carelessness. He allowod his hand to get into stripper while he was feeding flax. Ignorance. He was using kerosene to loosen scale in a hot boiler immediately after the boiler had been blown down. A gas was formed, in the presence of which he lit a match, when an explosion occurred. Clark Bros., Merchants, Maheno Circular saw Frederick Townsley ; aged 25 23rd June, 1904: lost three fingers of left hand Hadley and Co., Albert Street, Auckland thdraulio goodslift J. Lane; aged 31 3rd July, 1904: sprained arms Young and Co., Wakapatu 8th July, 1904: cut finger Circular saw George Sims; aged 22 W. Cable and Co., Lion Foundry, Wellington Drilling-machine John McKay; aged 20 25th July, 1904 : top of two fingers on left hand taken off Robertson Bros., Sash and Door Factory, Hardy Street, Nelson Machine, " General Joiner " William F. Pellew; aged 38 26th July, 1904: fingers of left hand taken off in a line from the base of little finger to the second joint of first finger Searle and Co., Ocean Beach, Invercargill Flax-mill August Haas ; aged 22 9th August, 1904 : col-lar-bone broken William Laws, Waimahaka, Southland Flax mill Albert Smith ; aged 20 28th September, 1904: broken arm, and badly bruised Bycroft (Limited), Flourmillers, Auckland Steam-engine .. Biohard Moody; aged 24 14th October, 1904: finger badly crushed John McGregor and Co., Otago Foundry, Dunedin Punching and shearing machine Archibald Miller ; aged 20 15th October, 1904: crushed thumb J. Kerr, Flax-mill, Brown's, Invercargill Flax-mill Alexander Paterson ; aged 19 17th October, 1904: lost left hand W. Cable and Co., Lion Foundry, Wellington Lathe.. A.Williamson; aged 50 19th Ootober, 1904: injured shoulder and ribs Michaelis, Hallenstein and Farquhar, Tanntrs, &c, Dunedin Leather-roller .. James Kay; aged 27 2nd November, 1904 : hand lacerated John Wilson and Co., Warkworth Cement and lime maohinery Edward Stewart ; aged 30 2nd November, 1904 : injury to muscles of thigh and calf of leg M. Raymond, Flaxmiller, Nokomai Flax-mill R. Gardiner ; aged 50 7th November, 1904: lost forefinger Moir and Co., Cashel Street, Christchurch Boiler.. Norman Archer ; aged 20 18th November, 1904 : burns on neck and arms