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(6.) Return showing the Fees Payable for the Inspection of Boilers and Machinery, and for the issue of Engine-drivers' Certificates during the Financial Year ended 31st March. 1908. Fees payable —On boilers, £6,901 10s. ;on machinery, £494 155.; for engine-drivers' certificates issued, £395 155.: total, £7,792. Government boilers and lifts inspected but not charged for, representing £219 17s. 6d. Total, £8,011 17s. 6d. The cash actually received for boilers and machinery inspected, and paid into the Public Account, amounted to £6,926 15s. 6d. The difference is represented by unpaid fees. The cash actually received and paid into the Public Account for engine-drivers' application fees amounted to £611 10s. 6d. for the financial year ended the 31st March, 1908. This amount includes fees for certificates not yet issued.

(c.) Return showing the Number of Service and Competency Certificates issued to Winding and Traction and Locomotive Engine-drivers and to Steam Stationaryengine Drivers during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1908.

No. 2 —Return of Defects found on Inspection of Boilers during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1908.

Total. Class of Certificate. Number of Certificates issued. Pees received. Number of Certificates issued. i Pees received. Steam winding— Service Competency Traction and locomotiveCompetency Steam stationary— Service —First class Competency— Kxtra first class First class Second class ... 8 ■1 7 £ s. d. 0 15 0 18 10 0 30 I £ s. d. 14 5 0 154 77 0 0 154 77 0 0 14 3 iO 0 4 148 298 4 0 0 148 0 0 149 0 0 464 304 10 0 648 £395 15 0

Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. • Total. A number of rivets in shell bad A number of screwed stays in firebox bad A number of screwed stays in firebox broken All screwed stays in firebox bad All screwed stays in firebox-crown bad Back tube-plates bulged ... Back tube-plate corroded (pressure reduced)... Badly pitted inside shell ... Barrel of boiler much wasted (pressure deduced) Boilers dirty inside Bottom of combustion-chamber wasted Bottom of firebox wasted ... Bottom of shell badly pitted Bottom of shell defective (pressure reduced) ... Bottom of shell thin Bottom row of tubes bad ... Brickwork-setting defective Bulged in sceam space at back end ... Bulged under bottom of shell Bulged under fire-door Compensating-riug round manhole-opening wasted Corroded at bottom corners of firebox Corroded internally Coupling-pins in longitudinal stays bad Cracked at bottom of furnace Cracked slightly at a number of rivet-holes ... Cracked slightly in firebox Cross tubes thin ... 4 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 8 4 2S 6 2 2 2 106 1 2 2 ■2 3 1 29 1 18 1 4 3 16 1 1 4 7 2 4 30 1 2 2 6 2 2 108 1 2 2 3 4 1 29 1 26 1 4 3 16 1 1 4 7 2