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Hon. D.P.W.,

The greater part of Mr. Stanger's report is taken

up with statements which call for no comment, except

that they make more inexplicable than ever the fact

that inferior pipes were received under Crown Agents'

Requisition No. 254 of 1903.

Paras. 11 & 12. It is the custom in this Depart-e

ment to bend wrought iron pipes cold; proper template

pieces being used next the pipe, and power being ap-

plied by means of hydraulic jacks.

Sample No. 1 was bent in this manner, and went

badly out of shape. Pipes of other consignments have

invariably been successfully bent in this manner,

and

several pipes of the consigment complained of were

more or less successfully bent in the same manner.

Sample No. 1 was one of the least successfully bent;

but it would have been used in the main, if the

screwed end had not torn off in the socketting up.

No other instruments than the ordinary pipe tongs

are used in making the joints; and the pipes are con-

nected up simply in the trench to the main already

laid, this being found to be the quickest and most

convenient way of dealing with such heavy pipes.

It was in the process of attempting to connect up

Sample No. 1 with these instruments, in the usual

that the screwed end got torn off.

way,

Para. 15. The result of the crushing test is

surprising, because the metal of the pipe was judged

here to have a highly orystalline structure.

Para. 17. The amount of phosphorous, as Mr.

stanger

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