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No. 2.—Return of Defects found on Inspection of Boilers during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1911.

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L—15a. - 10 o. 2. -Return of Defects found on Inspection of Boilers during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1911. Description of Defeote. n„ .,„„.,...„ Defective in I Dangerous. LeBS er Degree. i Total. A number of rivets in furnace bad A number of rivets in shell bad All screwed stays in firebox bad Angle-iron collar on top end of uptake defective Back tube-plate bulged Back tube-pate corroded Badly pitte I inside shell Boilers di Ky inside Bolts in usset-stays defective Bottom of combustion-chamber wasted Bottom of firebox thin Bottom of shell defective Bottom of shell thin Bottom row of tubes bad Brickwork-setting defective Bulged under bottom of shell Circumferential seams wasted Corroded internally Coupling-pins in longitudinal stays bad Cracked slightly in firebox Cracked slightly at a number of rivet-holes (racked under bottom of shell Crown of boiler wasted Crown of firebox and girders buckled Crown of firebox pitted badly Crown of firebox slightly bulged Crown of firebox wasted Crown of firebox wasted (pressure reduced) Crown of steam-dome wasted Crown-plate pitting badly Eight rivets defective in shell Eight rivets in gusset-stay defective Eight screwed stays in firebox bad Blight tubes bad Eighteen screwed stays in firebox bad Eighteen tubes bad Eighty screwed stays in firebox bad Eleven rivets in front end plate defective Eleven screwed stays in firebox bad. Fifteen rivets in shell bad Fifty screwed stays in firebox bad Firebox badly pitted Firebox, general waste Firebox sides bulged Firebox sides thin Firebox thin (pressure reduced) Firebox wasted on outside shell Five rivets in circumferential seam bad Five rivets in foundation-ring defective Forty screwed stays in firebox bad Foundation-rings round bottom of firebox defective Four rows of tubes bad Fourteen tubes bad Front tube-plate wasted Furnace-crowns wasted Furnace thin Furnace wasted at end over flanging Calloway tubes thin General deterioration (pressure reduced) Girders on crown of firebox wasted Girder-stays defective Grooved at end seams Grooved at foundation-ring Grooved on furnace-crown Grooved round uptake on crown of firebox 2 :: : ! ; ::■ I l 2 58 1 1 2 1 . :: 1 2 7 5 3 15 1 3 1 1 7 I 8 2 i 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 4 2 3 5 3 :: ! I i 4 1 1 2 .... 2 1 1 56 2 I 1 4 1 I ' 2 1 4 1 2 1 2 58 1 1 2 I 6 2 25 9 2 7 5 3 I 3 I 1 7 y 2 1 1 1 I _ 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 tj 3 5 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 56 o 1 1 4 1 1