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No. 3.—Return of Defects found on Inspection of Boilers during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1895.

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Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. Brick seating Cast-iron bridges on mud-hole doors Corrosion, externally Corrosion, internally Cracks in fire-boxes Cracks in shell Cracks in shell over furnace Cracks in tube-plates Defective construction Depressions over furnaces in externally-fired boilers. Depressions on crown of fire-boxes Fire-box girders broken Fire-box girders wasted Fire-boxes thin Fire-boxes renewed Flues out of shape Furnace wasted from leakage General dilapidation from neglect or age Grooving in furnaces Grooving in shell Grooving in uptakes Leakage from joints and mountings Leakage from seams in shell Manhole-openings weak Manhole-openings to be cut (omission) Patches in fire-boxes Eivets broken in furnace. Eivets broken in shell Eivets wasted and had to be renewed Saddle-plates wasted Stays, longitudinal, broken „ „ wasted Stays screwed in fire-box broken „ „ wasted Structural weakness Tubes wasted .. 17 2 11 2 1 1 2 6 5 2 6 3 48 22 20 5 2 9 2 5 12 8 9 12 4 28 3 16 9 22 26 18 3 20 12 6 4 2 6 3 65 24 31 5 2 11 2 5 12 1 9 11 6 17 4 30 3 16 10 22 26 29 3 21 12 7 4 2 6 10 26 28 6 70 1 11 1 1 6 2 2 6 14 10 24 26 56 Totals 93 452 545 Digesters found to be Defective on Ii .spection. 3rackets for supporting digesters internal corrosion liandings wasted internally Longitudinal stays wasted 2 4 3 4 2 14 18 12 4 18 21 16 Totals 13 4G 59 Defective Fittings found on Inspection of Boilers for whic, h Notice w, ,s given to •enew. 12 blow-off cocks. 1 blow-off pipe. 2 boiler-supports. 6 check-valves. 6 feed-pipes. 9 feed-pump valves. 30 fusible plugs. 21 pressure-gauges. 23 safety-valves. 28 sludge-hole doors. 15 spring-balances. 3 steam-pipes. 25 water-gauge cocks.