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Return of Machinery inspected in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1891.

Return of Defects found in Boilers and Fittings in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1891.

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Description of Machinery. i Q w. W (3 Description of Machinery. i w i -i-3 i Ammunition factory Air-compressor ... Assaying Breweries Bakery ... Bone-mill Brick-works Block- and pump-works ... Butter-box factory Boot factory Chemical-works Dement-works ... Confectionery-works Dordial-works Uoffee-mill Dhaff-cutting Dairy factories and creameries ... Docks ... Dredging Diamond-drill Flour-mills Flock-mill Fellmongeries ... Freezing-works . . Fruit-preserving works Fish-preserving works Furniture factory Firewood-cutting Fire-engine 3-asworks jrlycerine-works Eoisting Bauling [ronworks and foundries 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 29 18 2 2 1 6 1 5 2 3 4 1 24 1 3 1 20 4 13 fl Joineries Laundries Lifts or elevators Lead-works Lime-works Malt-mills j Maize-mill I Meat-canning factories ... Oil-, soap-, and candleworks Pumping and winding ... Pumping Printing Potteries | Pile-driving Phormium-dressing Quartz-crushing batteries '"Eoad-roller Rope-works I Saw-mills ! | Sash and door factory ... i Sugar-works ... ; Stone-breaking || Ship-building yards i Sausage-machines ij Tanneries j Tinplate-works Threshing- and chaff-cutting-machines Threshing-machines Varnish-works. Waterworks ... Woollen-mill ... Wool-dumping Winding 3 2 3 1 1 2 1 2 2 7 4 2 2 1 33 8 1 1 55 1 1 2 3 5 6 1 13 7 a ! i 11 3 2 2 1 1 14

Description. Dangerous. Ordinary. Total. ]ollapsed furnace-flues ... ?ire-boxes bulged 3orrosion, internal Corrosion, external fractured plates 31istered plates... 3ulged plates in bottom of externally-fired boilers foints sprung ... Cubes defective ... ... ... 2 1 "i 1 12 5 .3 2 3 3 7 2 2 12 6 3 2 3 3 7 i Total defects found in boilers ... I 4 36 40 Defective fittings— Safety-valves Pressure-gauges Water-gauges Spring-balances Feed pipes Blow-off cocks and "pipes Fusible plugs Emissions — Boiler without manhole ... j ' * ' I 1 9 11 1 5 4 3 1 9 11 1 5 4 3 1 1 Gross total ... 4 4 67 71