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Return of Notices given to Repair Boilers during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890.

Return of Boilers in the Wellington District inspected during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890, the Certificates for which have been issued Free.

District, and Date of Notice. Description of Boiler. Nature of Repairs ordered. Wellington. 1889. April 1 April 5 April 6 April 6 April 24 May 14 Cornish... Cornish... Semi-tubular Portable Multi-tubular Portable New gauge-mountings. New fusible plugs. New compensating-ring round man-hole. New crown in fire-box. Extra stays (longitudinal). Doubling piece under the cylinders, and repairs to mud doors. Bepairs to fire-box of locomotive. Retubed. New safety-valve fitted, and man-hole cut for examination. Repairs to fire-box of locomotive. Repairs to shell near feed-valve chest. Compensating-ring round man-hole, and additional stays. New angle-iron fitted in back end, and lower part of front plate renewed. July 19 July 23 July 25 July 27 Aug. II Aug. 17. Aug. 17 Portable Multi-tubular Vertical tubular ... Portable Cornish... Semi-tubular Cornish... Nelson South. Aug. 19 Sept. 9 Oct. 11 Oct. 12 Nov. 7 Portable Multi-tubular Cornish... Multi-tubular Portable Repairs to mud-hole doors. Extra stays in steam- and water-space. Repairs to longitudinal seams. Repairs to mud-hole doors. New crown in fire-box, repairs to skirt, new stays in steam-space, and all new stays in fire-box. New stays in fire-box, and repairs to skirt. Repairs to fire-box, and patch on shell. New stays in fire-box, and skirt repaired. Repairs to bottom of shell, and new blow-off cock fitted. New lum-leg fitted. Repairs to front plate and mud door, Retubed. Nov. 8 Nov. 14 Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Nov. 30 Nov. 30 Dec. 5 1890. Jan. 8 Portable Portable Portable Semi-tubular Vertical Cornish... Multi-tubular Cornish... Strengthening-rings round partially-collapsed furnace. Tabanaki. Jan. 25 Jan. 25 Jan. 81 Feb. 2 Portable Portable Portable Semi-tubular Xcv, stays on crown of fire-box. Extra cross-stays on crown of fire-box. Repairs to mud-hole doors, and new steam-gauge. Compensating-ring on man-hole, and new feed-check valve. New longitudinal stay in steam-space. Feb. 12 Portable Wellinoton. Feb. 24 Feb. 26 Feb. 20 Feb. 26 Multi-tubular Cornish... Portable Lancashire New plate bottom of boiler, back ring of plate. Patch on bottom, and blow-off cock refitted. The skirt of fire-box chipped and caulked. Strengthening-rings fitted on partially-collapsed furnacetubes. Patch on side of fire-box. March 27 Portable

Date. Fees. 188!). relegraph Department: One boiler over 10 h.p. ... ... June 1 Prisons Department: One boiler over 10 h.p. and one over 5 h.p. Nov. 4 Lunatic Asylum : Two boilers over 5 h.p. ... ... ... Nov. 12 Defence Department: One boiler over 10 h.p. and one over 5 h.p. June 19 government Printer : Two boilers over 10 h.p. ... ... April 18 & a. d. 3 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 I 122