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"and by forming the roof nearly flat, with durable tiles laid
in cernent to render it so
shong that is future Typhoon could seriously damage it, to many years. At the time the
same
narrow escape with their lives of those who had occnfied the place during the
Typhoons of last September shewed the necessity of being some flace of secure refuge. Provision was
therefore winte in the flaws for the construction
escafe
of a strong cellar with an at the North and South sides of the building. The slope of the
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"ground to the south reuvered the drainage of such a cellar ferfectly easy- and altogether he felt warranted in recommending the proposed flaws, in case the Council thought any
action in the matter desirable.
"We Clark, Acting Assistant
Surveyor beverns, who had been entrusted with preparation of the flaws and the
general suferintendence of the Building is then called in, and in
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questions but by the Honorable The Major General,
gives full explanations as to the difficulty of finding