Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for the Year Ending the 30th June 1872 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for the Year Ending the 30th June 1872<br><br>Another important branch of this Department the administration of which requires much care conciliation and firmnessis the inspection of all the steamboats with their boilers and machinery belonging to the Dominion and as they have been rapidly increasing of late years until they now amount in number to 473 and as not only large numbers of our inhabitants are constantly travelling in these boats during the summer season but also many strangers from the neighboring Republic and other countries who are attracted here by our fine climate and beautiful scenery it is of the greatest hnportance that the inspection should be carried out in the most thorough and impartial manner and that it should command the confidence both of the steamboat owners and the travelling public. The examination of the engineers who manage the boilers and engines of these steamboats has now also assumed large pmportions aml is a matter of as much importance as the examination of the boilers and engines. The number of steamboat engineers of the different grades who have succeeded in obtaining certificates of competency during the last year is 741 and the demand for them is still increasing. Great anxiety and responsibility is connected with the whole of this branch of the Department as questions are constantly arising between the Inapectors the steamboat owners and the engineers which require careful consideration and attention and it is a matter of much gratification to my Department that this service has been so successfully administered and that so very few accidents have occurred during the last five or six years when we take into consideration the number of steamboats and engineers to be examined and the extent of sea coast and inland waters over which these steamers are running.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.