A. useful instrument came into being during the year with the registration ff holler yards, with the ce-operation Me Commissioner of Public Works, Each of the 23 yards registered has undertaken to employ the services of approved engineer, without whose ipervision no boiler' will be manufactured. With regular inspection of yards, there is thus assured proper design, the use of attested plate whose numbers are reported when applica-lon for permit to manufacture focally made' through the engineer, and proper supervision of the process of manufacture, Within the limits of the manufacturing equipment available in Shanghai, vessels now built inthe Settlement are coming to be of better standard. Since the price of tested Boller plate has risen 250 per cent., this achievement at this time can considered as satisfactory. Twenty-eight permis to manufacture have deen Issued during the year. Of these, "seven boilers are known to have been shipped out of Shanghai. Thus the better standards enforced in this area extend their influence. With the passing of the custom of manufacturing. badly designed boiters of non-tested plate, and with successive years of fe-inspection of existing lant, there should be a gradual Cliraination of unfit vessels, Teading to an ultimate condition where Boller except of tested plate will exist Council administered areas,
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