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Return of Defects found in Boilers and Fittings in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1892.

Return of Machinery Inspected in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1892.

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Description. Dangerous. Ordinary. Total. Fire-boxes out of shape ... Fractured plates Blistered plates... Corrosion, internal Corrosion, external Joints sprung in bottom of boiler ... Tubes defective Stays defective ... i i i 3 2 5 15 2 8 7 3 1 2 6 16 2 8 7 Total defects found in boilers 3 42 45 Defective fittings— Safety-valves Feed-valves ... Stop-valves ... Pressure-gauges Water-gauges Spring-balances Blow-off cocks and pipes Fusible plugs in furnace-crowns Feed-pipes Omissions — Boilers without test-cocks 5 2 1 11 8 5 2 2 3 5 2 1 11 8 5 2 2 3 3 3 Gross total ... 84 87

Description of Machinery. i CD CO 8 IS ■■;- i Description of Machinery. B -S CO CD l w (3 o Ammunition factory Air-compressor ... Assaying Baths Breweries Boiling-down and bone-mills Butter-box factory Biscuit factories Boot factory Block- and pump-works ... Brick-works Blacksmiths Collieries 1 1 1 1 13 11 1 3 1 1 5 6 4 1 26 2 Gasworks Glueworks Hauling Hoisting Ironworks and foundries Joineries Lifts or elevators (2 hand) Lime-works Mortar-mills ... Maize-mill Oil-, soap-, and candleworks Plumber and copper-smiths Pumping and winding ... Pumping Potteries Printing Quartz-crushing batteries Eope-works Eoad-roller Sash and door factories ... Ship-building yards Stone-breaking Sulphur-works Sugar refinery Sausage-machines Tanneries Tinplate-works Threshing- and chaff-cutting-machines Threshing-machines (only) Tobacco factory Varnish-works. Waterworks ... Winding Wool-dumping Woollen-mill ... 4 1 7 29 15 2 4 5 4 1 34 3 Cooperage Chaff-cutting Coffee-mills Clothing factory Condensed-milk factory ... Coach-factories ... Confectionery- works Cordial-works Chemical manure-works ... Dairy factories and creameries... Dredgers Docks ... Electric-lighting Flax-mills Flour-mills Flock-mill Freezing-works . . Fish-preserving works Fruit-preserving works ... Fellmongeries Firewood-cutting Fire-engine Furniture factory 1 2 2 5 1 1 2 2 2 5 2 3 6 1 1 2 6 2 1 1 6 6 1 i 20 2 2 1 32 10 1 7 3 2 5 44 1 1 "3 1 7 3 1 1 3 14 5 1 i