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No. 2.—Return of Defects — continued.

Digesters found to be defective on Inspection during Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1909.

2—H. 15a.

Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. Tubes wasted (pressure reduced) Twelve screwed stays in firebox bad Twelve tubes bad Twenty-eight screwed stays in firebox bad ... Twenty-four screwed stays in firebox bad Twenty-six screwed stays in firebox bad Twenty tubes bad Twenty-two rivets in furnace and angle-ring bad Two top rows of screwed stays in side sheets and top row in back head bad Uptakes bad Uptakes wasted ... Vertical stays wasted Wasted at crown of firebox where fusible plug fitted ... Wasted at mouth of furnace and front of shell at bottom Wasted in firebox and smoke-box ... Wasted round bottom of firebox Wasted round furnace-door Wasted round neck of furnace Wasted round sides of firebox 3 6 2 1 1 4 2 3 1 1 3 11 2 2 1 6 2 1 1 4 2 3 1 1 6 11 2 2 1 2 1 9 3 1 8 1 11 3 1 8 Totals 51 973 1,024

• Defective in Lesser Degree. Description of Defects. Dangerous. Total. A number of rivets defective All rivets defective All rivets in crown plate bad All rivets in the circumferential and longitudinal seams in top end bad Bottom riveting defective ... Crown plates much wasted Door defective ... Door-riveting bad ... ... Five rivets bad ... Fifty-six rivets bad Forty rivets bad General deterioration (pressure reduced) One hundred and twenty rivets bad Plates pittin g considerably Several rivets bad Sixty rivets bad ... Thirty rivets bad... Three vertical stays bad ... Top of digester wasted Top plates and angle-irons bad Twenty-eight rivets bad ... Twenty rivets bad e 5 2 1 6 2 1 (i 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 i i i Totals 11. 27 38