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Return of Fees payable for the Inspection of Boilees and Machinery in the Wellington District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1886.

Return of Number of Notices given to repair Boilers in the Wellington District during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1886.

Name of District. ccs payable in respect of Boilers. Fees payable in respect of Machinery. Totals. Wellington Maryborough Nelson North Taranaki Hawke's Bay £ 395 65 142 86 192 s. a. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 £ s. a. £ 395 65 142 86 192 s. d. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 880 0 0 880 0 0

iistnct, and D of Notice. Dai Description of Boiler. Nature of Repairs ordered. Wellington— 1885. April 13 Oct. 19 Cornish ... Cornish ... Three small rivetted patches on bottom of shell. A compensating ring to be fitted round the man-hole, and new studs fitted in the door. Six tubes to be expanded and fitted with ferrules. Four mud-holes to have compensating rings fitted. A new lum-leg to be fitted. Nov. 17 Nov. 19 Nov. 19 1886. Jan. 19 Portable ... Portable ... Vertical ... Vertical ... Six vertical stays to be fitted. Maelborough— 1885. June 6 Multitubular Six longitudinal stays to be fitted in the steam- and tube-space. Twelve rivets to be renewed in flange of dome. June 17 Cornish ... Nelson Noeth— Aug. 3 Cornish ... A small patch where blow-off is fitted, and all the landing on tho bottom caulked. Seven extra screw-stays to be fitted in water-spaces. Aug. 6 Portable ... Taeanaki — Oct. 20 Vertical ... Three vertical stays to be fitted on top of boiler and furnace. The lower flange of a Galloway tube to ba re-rivetted. Oct. 20 Cornish Oct. 20 Portable ... The tube-ends in smoke-box to be expanded and beaded. Hawke's Bay— 1886. Feb. 11 Cornish ... All the landings of the bottom seams to be re-caulked, and twenty new rivets fitted. To have an angle-iron stiffening-ring fitted round the furnace-flue. The tube-ends in smoke-box to be expanded and beaded. Feb. 11 Cornish Feb. 31 Portable ...