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No 3.—Return of Notices given to repair Boilers 'during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1907.

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Number. Type. Description of Repairs. 5 4 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Cornish it ''' Cornish tubular ... it * • * Brickwork repaired. Defective plates on furnace-crowns cut out, and new crowns fitted. Furnaces patched where wasted. Luminated plate on front of boiler patched. Patch fitted on crown of boiler round steam-dome. Patch fitted on shell of boiler under blow-off cock. Patch fitted on shell under mountings. Strengthening plates riveted over grooves in the ends of furnaces. Two rivets renewed in flange of furnace. Brickwork repaired. Leaky stay-nuts rejointed. Six new tubes fitted. Strengthening-rings fitted to furnace. Threads renewed on three mudhole-door studs, and new nuts fitted. Three stay-rods put in tube-plate where cracked. -Brickwork repaired. Dog fitted over bulge in back tube-plate. Furnace crown repaired. Furnace strengthened by twelve screwed stays. New crown fitted in steam dome. Strengthening rings fitted round furnaces. Cracks in furnace-chain pinned. Defective portion of shell at bottom and front end cut out and renewed. « ■ • * Dryback marine ... ii • • ' Lancashire 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 // ' * ' Locomotive Furnaces repaired. Strengthening rings fitted round furnaces. Compensating-ring fitted round manhole-opening. Compensating-ring fitted round mudhole-openings. Doubling-plates fitted over tapered plugholes in back end. Eighteen new nuts fitted on firebox-stays. Eighty-three new screwed stays fitted in firebox, new girder-stays, and patches fitted at the corners of foundation-ring. Five new nuts fitted on firebox-stays. Fourteen new screwed stays, and patch fitted at the bottom of front tube-plate. Front tube-plate patched, and seventeen new tubes fitted. Mudholes retapped, and new tapered plugs fitted. New crown fitted to firebox. New front tube-plate fitted. New firebox and all new screwed stays. New stud in mudhole-door. One new stay-tube fitted. Patch fitted in firebox. Patch fitted on each side of firebox. Patch fitted on bottom of shell. Patch fitted on right-hand side of firebox. Patch fitted on tube-plate, and three new screwed stays. Patch fitted on throat-plate. Patch fitted under fire-door. Ee tubed. Retubed, and defective patch renewed. Eetubed, and new tube-plate fitted. Side sheets and tube-plate patched. Six new screw-stays fitted in firebox. Sling-stays fitted between girder-stays. Three new screwed stays fitted in firebox. Twelve new screwed stays fitted in firebox. Two bad places cut out of firebox, and patches fitted. Two new screwed stays fitted in firebox. Two new sight-holes cut, and tapered plugs fitted. I 220 new screwed stays fitted in firebox. Three rows of screwed stays fitted in bottom of shell where thin. New stay-tube fitted. Brickwork repaired. Bulge cut out of bottom and patch riveted on. Bulge in tube-plate heated and drawn back. Compensating-rings fitted round mudhole-openings. Cracked plate cut out of bottom of shell, and patch fitted. 1 1 it ''' 1 5 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 27 2 1 10, 1 n it ''' it *' * a * * * a '" a • • ■ „ a ' ■ * n • • * // a a it a ' * * Manure-dryer Marine ... Multitubular i I