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No. 2. —Return of Defects — continued.

Digesters found to be defective on Inspection during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1911.

Description of Defects. Dangerous. Dange Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. Two longitudinal seams wasted Two rows of screwed stays in firebox bad Two stay-nuts bad Uptakes bad Uptakes wasted Uptakes wasted at flanging Vertical stays wasted Wasted at crown of firebox where fusible plug fitted Wasted at line of firebars Wasted round bottom of firebox Wasted round bottom of uptake \V;i;,t<;d round front of furnace Wasted round furnace-door Wasted under furnace-door and at throat-plate '' i I 1 1 1 6 1 2 3 2 12 1 2 3 1 1 I 1 1 6 1 •> m 3 2 12 1 2 3 1 Totals 14 692 706 i

Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. A number of rivets defective All rivets in bottom end bad All rivets in circumferential seams (it top end bad All rivets in top end bad AH rivets in top end and crown-plate bad Holts in doors defective : were renewed Circumferential seams inside wasted Doors defective Eighty-eight rivets bad and all circumferential seams wasted Fifty rivets bad Forty rivets bad General deterioration (pressure reduced) .. New steel end fitted to replace cast-iron one .. Nineteen rivets bad and seams in top plate defective .. Ninety rivets bad and seams defective One bolt in top door bad One hundred rivets bad and seams defective Piping defective : was renewed Riveting in top seam bad and stays defective Seams defective Seventy rivets bad and seams defective .. Several rivets bad Several seams defective and riveting in bottom flange bad Shell wasted : patch fitted over thin portion Sixteen rivets bad and seams defective .. Ten rivets bad and seams defective .. .. Thirty-eight rivets bad and seams defective Top of digestor bad : new one fitted Top door bad and several seams defective Top seam of rivets bad .. .. .. Twelve rivets bad .. .. .. .. Twenty-four rivets bad .. .. .. Twenty rivets bad .. .. .. Two lugs on bottom door defective . . . . Wasted on top of digester .. .. .. . 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 8 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 ] 1 5 4 1 1 4 3 1 2 1 1 3 1 ] 1 1 1 1 1 7 8 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 I r> l 4 1 1 1 :s 1 I I 2 I 1 3 1 1 Totals 10 55 i;:>