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Return of Machinery inspected during the Financial Year ending the 31st March, 1893.—ctd.

No. 3. —Return of Defects found on Inspection of Boilers during the Financial Year ending 31st March, 1893.

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Description of Machinery. a ■ i a! «3 02 Drive m by Description of Machinery. n3 3 3> Drivi in by CD CD ■+=> Mortar-mills Nail-works Oatmeal-mills Oil-, soap-, and candle-works Paper-mills Potteries Printing Pumping Quartz-crushing ... Refrigerating-works Road-hauling Road-rollers Rolling-mills Rope-works Roundabout Sash and door factories Sausage-chopping • ... Saw-mills Seed-cleaning ■ Sheep-dips Sheep-shearing Ship-building yards Soap-works Soap- and candle-works 1 1 2 3 2 6 23 32 15 21 2 2 2 3 1 23 49 245 9 4 8 3 15 4 "i 6 5 Soda-crystals works Starch-works Steam-cranes Stone-crushing ... Stone-cutting Sugar refinery Sulphur-works ... Tanneries Threshing, portable Threshing, traction Tinplate-works ... Tobacco factory ... Tram-engines Turneries (wood)... Varnish-works Venetian-blind works Vinegar brewery Waterworks Well-sinking Winding Wire-working Woollen-mills Wool-pressing Wool-scouring ... 4 2 45 20 6 1 2 18 180 103 1 1 7 20 1 8 1 3 10 27 1 8 21 15 i 1 "2 "i Summary. Machinery driven by Steam. Steam and Water. Water. Gas. Total. 2,214 13 52 24 2,303

Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. Cracks in fire-boxes Cracks in shell Corrosion, internal Corrosion, external Depressions over furnaces in externally-fired boilers... Fire-boxes thin Fire-boxes, stays wasted and broken Fire-boxes and furnaces out of shape Fractured plates Furnace wasted from leakage General dilapidation from neglect or age Grooving in furnaces Grooving in shell Grooving in uptakes Leakage at joints of boilers Leakage at joints of fittings Longitudinal stays broken Patches on fire-boxes Eivet cracks in furnace ... Eivet broken in furnace and shell Tubes wasted in smoke-box end ... 2 5 8 5 7 4 5 1 2 4 1 2 1 1 7 11 10 9 27 8 28 10 15 2 6 3 20 7 9 12 9 16 10 17 32 15 32 15 16 4 10 4 22 8 10 12 12 16 10 12 S3 12 16 10 12 81 2 62 253 315