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No. 2.—Return of Defects found on Inspection of Boilers during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1913.

Description of Defects. Dangerous. Defective in Lesser Degree. 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 Angle-iron stay connections defective Back head-plate wasted at bottom, Back tube-plate bulged Badly bulged on bottom of shell Badly pitted inside shell Boilers dirty inside Boilers very dirty inside Bolts in gusset-stays defective . . Bottom of firebox thin Bottom of shell defective Bottom row of tubes bad Brickwork setting defective Bulged under bottom, of shell Bulged under fire-door Circumferential seams wasted Compensating-ring round manhole-opening defective Corners of firebox wasted Corroded internally Coupling-pins in diagonal stays bad Coupling-pins in longitudinal stays bad Cracked slightly at landings.. Cracked slightly in firebox Cracked under bottom of shell Crown of boiler wasted Crown of firebox and girders buckled Crown of firebox cracked Crown of firebox slightly bulged Crown of firebox wasted Crown of firebox wasted (pressure reduced) Crown of firebox wasted badly Crown of steam-dome wasted Eight screwed stays in firebox bad Eight tubes bad Eighteen screwed stays in firebox bad Eighteen tubes bad Eleven rivets in shell bad Eleven screwed stays in firebox bad Eleven tubes bad Expansion-rings defective Fifteen rivets defective Fifteen screwed stays in firebox bad Firebox general waste Firebox-sides bulged Firebox-sides thin Firebox thin (pressure reduced) Firebox wasted on outside shell Five rivets in tube-plate bad Five rows of tubes bad Flanges of cross-tubes wasted Flanges of galloway tubes wasted Forty-eight screwed stays in firebox bad Foundation-rings round bottom of firebox defective Fourteen screwed stays in firebox bad Fourteen tubes bad Front tube-plate wasted Furnace-crowns slightly down Furnace-crowns wasted Furnaces thin Furnace wasted at end Galloway tubes thin General deterioration (pressure reduced) i 4 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 6 37 1 1 5 1 16 9 1 1 I 1 1 3 4 1 3 1 1 4 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 7 3 4 [ .; i i 7 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 164 1 2 1 1 1 2 6 37 1 1 5 1 16 9 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 3 4 1 3 1 1 4 9 1 1 2 4 1 1 1 2 4 6 37 4 1 1 6 1 16 9 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 3 4 2 3 1 1 4 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 3 9 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 164 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 3 7 3 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 164