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Eetuen showing Machinery Inspected. Worked by Steam: Assaying, 1; horse-power, 2. Boiling-down, 2; horse-power, 28. Brickworks, 6; horse-power, 100. Boring and winding, 1; horse-power, 15. Bakeries, 2; horsepower, 14. Bone-mill, 1; horse-power, 10. Breweries, 12; horse-power, 114. Block and pump works, 2; horse-power, 8. Boatbuilding, 2 ; horse-power, 16. Cabinetmaking factories, 6 ; horsepower, 19. Coach factories, 2 ; horse-power, 12. Chair factory, 1; horse-power, 6. Chaff-cutting, 12; horse-power, 44. Cheese factories, 4; horse-power, 18. Cement works, 3; horse-power, 33. Coffee mills, 2; horse-power, 12. Cordial works, 2; horse-power, 6. Dredging, 4; horse-power, 25. Fellmongeries, 2; horse-power, 7. Flour-mills, 8 (also steam and wind, 1); horse-power, 211. Firewood-cutting, 9; horse-power, 32. Fire-engine, 1; horse-power, 4. Gasworks, 2; horse-power, 32. Hoisting, 11; horse-power, 48. Hauling, 9; horse-power, 105. Hat factory, 1; horse-power, 1. Ironworks, 18; horse-power, 107. Leadworks, 1; horse-power, 6. Lifts or elevators, 1; also worked by water, 9; worked by gas, 3. Mortar mills, 9; horse-power, 70. Meat-canning factories, 3; horse-power, 21. Laundries, 2; horse-power, 18. Pumping and winding, 21; horse-power, 796. Phormium-dressing, 4; horae-power, 31. Printing, 2; horsepower, 11. Potteries, 3; horse-power, 38. Pile-driving, 1; horse-power, 5. Quartz-crushing, 7 ; horse-power, 172. Eopeworks, 1; horse-power, 96. Saw-mills, 40; horse-power, 1,618. Sugarrefining works, 1; horse-power, 10. Soapworks, 3; horse-power, 90. Shipbuilding, 3; horsepower, 26. Sausage-machines, 3 ; horse-power, 9. Threshing, 9; horse-power, 63. Tanneries, 3; horse-power, 15. Vinegar factory, 1; horse-power, 3. Waterworks, 2; horse-power, 164.

Return of Notices given to Repair Boilers in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1884.

Small defects rectified during my visits are not included.

Date of Notice. Description of Boiler. Nature of Eepairs ordered. Lpril 12, 1883 19, „ 26, „ >fay 23, „ une 5, „ "une 29, „ uly 2, „ uly 14, „ uly 14, „ August 4, ,, August 15, ,, August 21, ,, August 30, „ 5ept. 10, ,, Sept. 18, „ )ctober 12, ,, Cornish ... Portable ... Vertical tubular Vertical tubular Vertical flue Cornish ... Cornish ... Cornish ... Cornish ... Portable ... Longitudinal tubular Longitudinal tubular Cylindrical Longitudinal tubular Vertical tubular Longitudinal tubular Defective place in front end ; patch to be fitted. Tubes defective. To be retubed. Patch to be fitted to furnace and spring-balance adjusted. Top tube-plate very much reduced by corrosion. The greater part of it to be renewed. Fracture in flange of vertical flue. Defective part to be renewed. Two strengthening-rings to be fitted to furnace-flue and mouthpiece to man-hole. Patch to be fitted to bottom, and safety-valve overhauled. Four joints in bottom sprung. To be re-rivetted and caulked. Three joints in bottom sprung. To be re-rivetted and caulked. Patch to be fitted to shell. Water-gauge and safety-valve overhauled. Eivetted patch to be fitted to one of the plates in bottom. Eivetted patch to be fitted to one of the plates in bottom. Two plates very much reduced by corrosion. To be renewed. One plate in shell bulged and fractured. To be renewed. Ten tubes to be replaced. Three joints in bottom to be sheathed, and two gusset stays replaced. Three stays to be replaced, and water-gauge overhauled. Two defective joints in bottom. Two patches to be fitted. Safety-valve and blow-off tap to be overhauled, and three tubes replaced. To be retubed, and patch fitted to shell. Strengthening-ring to be fitted to man-hole, and pressuregauge adjusted. Top fire-box badly bulged, and tube plate very much sprung. To be retubed, top fire-box made good, and fusible plug fitted. New. Imported from America. Man-hole to be made, water-gauge and a larger, or additional, safety-valve fitted. Patch to be fitted to lower part of furnace. New. Imported from England. Man-hole to be made, and two additional stays in steam space, to make it fit for the pressure required.": Two plates in shell, badly bulged, have been renewed. The damage was done by a fire in the mill. Six tubes to be replaced. )ctober 15, ,, )ctober 19, ,, *ov. 13, „ Portable ... Cornish ... Vertical tubular )ec. 12, „ )ec. 14, „ Vertical tubular Cornish ... ranuary 12, 1884 Portable ... "anuary 13, „ Longitudinal tubular anuary 16, ,, tlarch 5, ,, Vertical tubular Longitudinal tubular tlarch 11, „ Cornish ~^f* ilarch 13, ,, Longitudinal tubular