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Appendix E.—Name and Address of each Mining Engine-driver holding a Certificate, 
Holders of Second Class Certificates of Competency— continued. 
Name. 
Address. 
No. and Date of 
Certificate. 
Hosking, Benjamin Edward ... 
Blackwood . 
12 
1884. 
3 October 
Davies, David ... 
Kingston. 
13 
7 October 
Munro, William . 
Alfred-lane, Staweli . 
14 
0 October 
Harris, Joseph Barkly. 
Sherriff-street, Staweli. 
15 
0 October 
Stuart, Alexander Leslie 
Beaufort. 
10 
0 October 
May, Silas .. 
California Gully, Sandhurst. 
17 
20 November 
NeunhoutFer, Frederick Henry 
Hayes-strect, Ironbai'k, Sandhurst. 
18 
20 Novembor 
Nancarrow, Stephen Henry ... 
Sturzaker, George Thomas 
Panton-street, Eaglehawk . . 
10 
29 November 
AVood’s Point . 
20 
5 December 
Steele, Edward . 
Kilcunda P.0. 
21 
10 December 
Llewellyn, John Henry 
Chewton P.0, .. 
22 
19 December 
Wilkinson, John Fell . 
Ray wood .. . 
23 
10 December 
Leyshon, William, junior 
Upper-road, California Gully, Sandhurst. 
24 
10 December 
Ryan, Thomas. 
Booth-street, Golden Square, Sandhurst . 
25 
10 December 
Butler, James William 
Butler-street, Sandhurst . 
20 
19 December 
Rockes, Michael . 
Simpson’s-road, Eaglehawk. 
27 
19 December 
Forrester, William Abner 
Lauriston. 
28 
19 December 
Clarkson, George Francis 
Lauriston.. 
20 
19 December 
Duncan, Peter. 
Long Gully, Sandhurst . 
30 
19 December 
Smith, William George 
Bailieston . 
31 
10 December 
Davies, Thomas. 
Yandoit P.0. 
32 
1S85. 
12 January 
Pooley, Charles. 
Stanhope-street, Daylesford. 
33 
12 January 
Dodd, William. 
Drummond . 
34 
12 January 
Smyth, Thomas Lee . 
McPherson, Alexander Walter 
Broomfield 
35 
12 January 
Rutlierglen . 
30 
24 February 
Roberts, William . 
Golden Gully, Sandhurst . 
37 
24 February 
Taylor, William.. 
California Gully, Sandhurst. 
38 
25 February 
Christesen, Jolin . 
Baannutha, Beech worth . 
30 
25 February 
West, William. 
Laanecoorie P.O. . 
40 
25 February 
Routh, William . 
Laanecoorie P.O. ., 
41 
25 February 
Angwin, Christopher . 
Queensbury-street, Daylesford . 
42 
20 February 
APPENDIX F. 
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF EXPLOSIVES TO THE HONORABLE THE 
MINISTER OF MINES FOR YEAR 1883. 
[Presented to both Houses of Parliament pursuant to section 14 of The Explosives Act 1877.] 
To the Honorable J. F. Levion, M.P., Minister of Mines, &c., &e., &c. 
Melbourne, 9th July, 1884. 
Sir, 
I have the honour to submit the following Report in accordance with section 14 of The Explosives 
Act 1877:— 
The manufacture of explosives at the works of the Australasian Litliofracteur Company at LocaHactories. 
Braybrook, and at the safety blasting powder factories at Staweli and Sandhurst, has been conducted 
without accident, and, as a rule, the quality has been good. A license was granted for the manufacture of 
ordinary blasting powder at works erected at Black Hill, Ballarat, but the works have been closed for the 
present. 
The demand for dynamite for mining purposes is steadily increasing, and large quantities have been increased use of 
imported as well as manufactured during the year. The quantity of the latter in stock is under control, as dynamite * 
the amount allowed in the factory magazine at Braybrook is limited, and the output of the works is 
regulated by the demand, but with imported explosives there is no limit to the amount that may accumulate 
at any one time. In 1881 the amount used was comparatively small, and the Explosives Board then sitting 
recommended that all mtro-glycerine compounds should be stored below water-level in hulks containing not Hulks, 
more than 5 tons each; but since that time the imported explosives have arrived in such quantity that wo 
have had 70 or 80 tons of dynamite in the Bay at oue time, which would require a flotilla of some 
14 or 16 small hulks anchored about the Bay. To meet the difficulty, I suggested that a shore magazine 
should be provided, so as to relieve the hulk, in which the dynamite was so packed that inspection was 
impossible. But, owing to various causes, shore magazines wero not constructed ; and to meet the 
necessity of the case, the Department of Customs provided a now hulk so fitted that from 50 to 60 tons 
of explosives could be stored below water-lovel. This capacity was considered sufficient at the time, not 
only by myself, but by the merchants whom 1 consulted and the officers of the Customs Department, and 
tlicro can be no question as to the inadvisability of storing a larger quantity in ono magazine near any large 
centre of population; but at times during the past year the quantity in the bulk has been as much as 80 
tons, and recently, owiug to my having found explosives of an inferior quality in the hulk, the vessel has 
been removed from the old anchorage in Hobson’s Bay to a position off Point Cook, some five miles below 
the Gellibrand lightship. This step no doubt ensures the safety of the city of Melbourne, but it does not 
provide safe or proper storage for a largo quantity of dynamite, and to ensure this safety some further 
provision must be made. 1 am still of the opinion that a shore magazine will bo the most suitable, and 
as a site cannot be found near Melbourne which is not objected to by neighbouring property owners, I 
