H.—lsa.

No. 2.—Return of Defects— continued.

Digesters found to be defective on Inspection during Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1908.

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Description of Defeota. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. Tube-ends leaking Tubes pitting slightly Tube-plates bad ... Tube-plates bulged Tube-plates wasted Tubes wasted Two longitudinal stays bad Two screwed stays in firebox bad ... Two screwed stays in firebox bad Two stay-tubes bad Two rivets in foundation-ring bad ... Two rivets in furnace bad ... Two tubes bad ... Twelve screwed stays in firebox broken Twenty-nine screwed stays in firebox bad Twenty nuts on crown-stays bad Twenty-one tubes bad Twenty screwed stays in firebox bad Twenty-six tubes bad Twenty-three screwed stays in firebox bad ... Twenty-two plain tubes and four stay-tubes bad Uptake and back of furnace wasted (pressure reduced) Uptakes bad Uptakes wasted ... Vertical stays leaking Vertical stays wasted Wasted at bottom of firebox and mudhole-openings ... Wasted a"t crown of firebox where fusible plug fitted ... Wasted at front end of boiler (pressure reduced) Wasted on top tube-plate and end of tubes ... ... I Wasted round bottom of firebox Wasted round furnace-door Wastfid round sides of firebox Wasted round top of shell and grooved round uptake ... 7 1 I L2 9 12 1 81 4 5 5 4 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 10 1 3 3 5 1 6 2 1 5 2 12 9 19 1 31 4 5 5 4 ] 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 10 1 3 3 5 1 6 2 1 5 2 Totals 63 68 1,169 1,232

• Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. Total. A number of rivets bad (pressure reduced) ... All rivets bad All rivets in the circumferential and longitudinal seams in the top end bad Bolts in door defective Bottom of digester wasted... Circumferential seams wasted ..y.. Crown plates much wasted Door defective Fifteen rivets in top bad ... Four rivets bad ... General deterioration (pressure reduced) Landings wasted Ninety-eeven rivets bad ... One hundred and twenty rivets bad Eivets in top door bad Shell corroded Stay-nut on crown bail Thirty rivets bad Three vertical stays bad ... Top of digester wasted Top plates and rivets wasted Top seams of rivets bad 3 2 7 7 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 6 2 1 1 1 1 2 6 5 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 4 6 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 6 5 3 i i Totals n \-i ry.i