RE-OPENING OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE COCHRANE STREET
COLLAPSE.
Before Mk. Hazeland this morning the enquiry into the collapse of the two houses in Cochrane Streat was opened.....
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tenant put up a partition. I did not get permis- sion from the Public Work's Department to build the arch in place of the wall. On the section of the phin 1 also see four brick arches dividing the kitchens from the yard. I did not put them in, and omitted to obtain permission to dispense with them. According
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what would be the pressure on the lower part of the party wall of a Chinese roof. Mr. Pearson has been in the building trade for twenty-five years. He was overseer of the Public Works Department under the Ordinance for a number of years. He has had no practical training as an engineer or architect. For 7 or eight years
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stack on the top of the house, but it was not erected as I thought it was useless. On the top of the roof of the cookhouse on the top floor I put a "small house" in order to go to
of the Building Ordinance with Mr. Pearson as my assistant; for 4 or 5 years in the P. W. D. I was working under Mr. Tooker. Mr. Stewart. in this matter had only to measure up.
The coroner should therefore inquire as to the circumstances of the death; where and when the deceased died or was found dead; the roof, but as it was only a few feet high 1 Before the alterations I think there were two by whom he was last seen a ite; who was pre- did not get permission from the Public Works | cross walls in each house and a yard between. sent, or who first saw the body after death Department, I did not see a small recess in the It is not always the practice to show the ald
whether any known illness existed; whether
any negligence or blame is alleged against any
one."
The first witness, Chun Tson Cheong, the owner of the property, said.. At the time hought Nos. 32 and 34 Cochrane Street they' were three storey buildings. After looking at the property I saw the possibility of adding another storey and completed the purchase of the property. Mr. Hazeland was the first architect I consulted.
The witness continuing, said the cross internal
The notice was produced also the plan of the new building operations that were sent to the Public Works. Department showing the proposed addition of a verandah.
I have seen the plan before Mr. Hazelanti prepared it for me.
The pl showing the details of the new verandah was put in.
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party wall between Nos. 34 and 36. In No. 33, Cochrane Street similar deviations from the plans were made. In order to build the new story it was necessary to raise the party wall, and take off the coping. Before I began to build I had to remove between one and two fect of the old walls. The old walls were built of blue bricks, most of them being whole, though small pieces were used for filling up. In my opinion the
work on a plan as well as the new. I probably should have passed the plans in a small jeb although the old work was not showing These plans do not show the old work. The proposed new walls were almost in the same position as the old ones."
The length of the party wall between the cross wall and the front wall was 36 feet 4 in. The Ordinance allows for the length of a party
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additional weight; when they were uncovered I did not see any Government official inspect wall to be built was not on the same line as
them. Owing to the roof the walls were con- In plan of No. 34 there is évidently a mis the old cross walls. The new wall was between siderably higher in the centre than at the two
lake in demensions. The depth is given as the lines of the two old walls. The result of ends. I did not level them off when the new 34 ft. 6 in. If the party wall were half-an-inch this would make the rooms very slightly larger.walls were built. The roofs were covered with higher it would have to be thicker. In the I wanted a new storey adde. Mr. Hazeland three layers of Canton tiles. I did not intend plan of No. 33 the measurement of the height of prepared the plans and showed them to me. I
to sell the houses as soon as they were cam- the wall is taken 6 inches below the floor level. signed the notice to the Director of Public pleted. I did not notice any brackets driven It is necessary to make a hole in the floor to as Works of my intention to build.
into the wall of the blacksmith's shop. On the certain the width or condition of the footing of verandah of the first floor of No. 32 there were a wall. In making alterations to a building it some tables and chairs. I saw no cracks or is necessary that the old parts should any other signs that the building was in a comply with the ordinance as well as the new.. dangerous condition when I went there on the It is not possible to find out if a wall is exact-THOLDERS in the above Company will afternoon of the day in question. In the frontly in accordance with Section 10 of the Or
be held at the Company's Office on SATUR. of the house I took down the wall sufficiently dinance without breaking into it. The section
DAY, the 28th instani, at Noon, for the purpose, far to enable me to put brackets in under the making it compulsory to use red bricks of receiving the Report of the General Mana verandah, and I took down the back wall in in the tower storey of all buildings and, forbid.gers, together with a Stuement of Accounts to order that I might build another floor." ding the use of black has never been enforced. 30th June, 1901.
There was nothing on the plans to show if the lowest storey was black or red bricks. It is not, possible to tell whether a building. complies with the Ordinance without personal inspection. It has always been considered that in any plans submitted for alteration to old buildings it is taken for granted that the old buildings comply with the Ordinance I saw the houses after the collapse and think the cause was a quantity of iron
OTICE is hereby given that the
TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY CIGAR At this stage the Court adjourned for tiffin. placed on brackets in the blacksmith's shop
YEARLY MEETING of the SOCIETY will be Resuming after the morning's adjournment, on the party wall between No 32 and No.34.
held at the HEAD OFFICE, No. 1, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, en THURSDAY, the the contractor said, I cut holes in the walls in There are signs even now of this. Also the the blacksmith's shop to see if the walls were lowest foor being a blacksmith's shop, hainzer 10th October, igor, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to. sound. I removed 3 bricks in length and 4 bricks ing. at heavy material is constantly going on in height. I did this on my own responsibility. and would to shake and weaken the wall.gether with the Statements of Accounts for the year 190 and for the half year ending I wanted to see if the walls were good. This It is feasible that the storing of a quantity the 30th June, 19or, and of declaring Divi- was on the 22nd or 23rd of December last. I of iron on the front, verandah over the dends, etc. did not show the walls to the owner but I did. blacksmith shop might have pulled out the not fill up the hole until some time after. front wall and caused the collapse of the The role was made in the wall of No.. 32 party-wall. The roof and all the flours near the kitchen door and outside the door.rest on the party wall so that a front wall might fall out and leave the party wali standing, but the probability is it would cause the collapse, of the party wall, as
There was already a veraz dah to the first and second floors. Some time afterwards 1 received a permit to proceed with the building from the Public Works Department. I re ceived it from Mr. Mazėlanu witḥ plan |B. In the meantime I had purchased No. 34. Coch- Pane Street. After cumpleting the purchase went to Mr. Hozeland. The alterations to No. 34 were to be the same as in No. 3. Mr. Hazeland prepared the plans for me.
Plans were put in marked D.
I signed a notice signifying my intention to make the alteration.
Mr. Hazeland, in a few days handed me permit from the P. W. D. I do not remember if there was a plan for an enlarged' verandab for No. 34. 1 believe I saw a copy of the plan of the proposed additions to No. 32. I got it from Mr. Hazeland, but I am not sure. After Mr. Hazeland had go: the permits for me from the P. W. D. he had nothing further to do with the matter. I paid Mr. Hazeland $40 for each house for preparing the plans. I employed Kun Wah of the, Wo Kee to do the work. He started work on both houses at the same time. No. 31. ground door, was let to Tong Yit; also the first floor. He was a blacksmith and was a tenant before I purchased the house. The rent was $50 a month. When I purchased the house the second floor was unoccupied. The blacksmith shop was not removed while. I was carrying on the building operations. The blacksmith had a fireplace, or forge, on the ground floor and carried on his business of making verandah irons. He made iron verandah brackets like those shown on the plan C.
Mr. Hazeland called attention to there being a blacksmith in the collapse in Holleywood Road.
Pun On, contractor, of 3 Sing. Wong Street, stated it had been carrying on his busi- ness for eleven or twelve years, prior to which he was apprenticed to a bricklayer. In February of last year he was engaged to carry out some alterations at Nos. 32 and 34 Cochrane Street at a cost of $2,350. He proceeded to detail the work contracted for, and explained that in several instances the plan was not strictly adhered to.
I was about 2 or 3 feet from the ground and about, 8 feet from the kitchen door I had to make the hole to join on the new to the old wall. The hole was about nine inches deep. d d not know there was a hole in the party walt between No. 34 and 35 When I was building there was no hole made more than one hole to see if the wall was good. The walls were not cracked anywhere and I judged them all good by the holes I had made. The old walls were cut into to put in the cobbling for the, new joists. The owner was frequently there to inspect the work and told me to work according to the plan. The small house on top of the cook house was built by me. This small house was 7 feet high, built of brick. There was one of these small houses on, each Mr. Bouley said it is most..undesirable house. The landlord instructed me to build them. to have blacksmith's shops in tenement houses. Mr. Bowley recalled the witness, who said, the When I bought No. 34 the tenant of the ground landlord told me to put in timber instead of floor was a building contractor. He was still building internal cross walls. The owner told there at the time of the accident. He paid me to put in an arch instead of a solid cross $34 a month rent. There was a cockloft on wall in each building. They were on the ground floor of each building. I built the chimney as the ground floor used for storing beans. I do ⚫ not know. if any fokis slept there. The first floor shown on the plan in No 34. The stack was not was let as a family house. The rent was $z4built in either building. I did not build on the roof month. The tenants were there on the night of No 24. The cost of putting timbers in instead reamens boarding house. During the altera- the arches was the same because of increased cost of labour, During the alterations I did not see any Government Inspector come to inspect the building.
of the accident. The second floor was let as a of solid brick work was the same. The cost of
tion the second floor tenant removed, and after wards came back and occupied the third floor at a rental of $28.
At the time of the accident the second floor was occupied by. Yik Chung Sung and his family. The tenants of the ground and firs: floors remained during the alterations. The floors occupied as family houses were divided up into cubicles.
Mr. Hazelind sworn said I have given evidence in this matter before. I have had nothing to do with No. 30 Cochrane Street, only Nos. 33 and 34. Tung Chew Chon came to me and asked me to inspect the walls of No. 32 to see if they were good enough to stand another storey being put on. I said 1 would let him know, after seeing the walls I sent Mr. Pearson to look at them. I told him to see if hey were sound. I did not tell him to cut into them, I did not tell him to ex
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two are bonded and generally tied with rods, I think it more probable the party wall went first in this case, The wall was not hollow, but badly bonded, in fact like two nine inch walls built together; at all events it has, that appearance in places. In a well built wall you cannot pierce a joint without coming onto a brick. In this wall vertical joints are constantly occurring, several courses deep. Inoticed a lot of broken brick had been used in building. As a general rule it has been found safe to build new work on old blue brick walls: I have no diplomes as an architect; all my experience has been gained in the Public Works Department.
The Court then adjourned till to o'clock -to-morrow.
LABUAN NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LAOUAN, September 8th.
The left wing of the Borneo army arrived here in the early hours of the morning of 4th instant and left immediately in the Company's flag ship Petrel for Weston, there to take train for Beaufort, or as far as they can go en réuts for the neighbourhood of Tenom, where a certain chief of the National or Mat Salleh party, after killing another chief friendly to Government, who bad betrayed him for the fakir's gold, has built a fort and defies the Company. The strength of force just left to attack the fort amounts to 12 Sikhs under charge of a Euro- pean novice not yet conversant with the native language
The Governor and suite arrived for a short stay on rat inst. He has now gone to Lawag and Brunei' in then s. Petrel. Lawas is Brunei territory under the rule of Pangeran or chief Abu Baker, who has no love for Europeans and won't allow them in his territory. The Chartered Company cover the rich district of Laws and also Bakar known it, hence he prefers not to allow Europeans to enter, fearing some grievance might be hatched to paya the way for the benevolent assirailation, It would be a
There were the following cubicles on each floor at the time of the accident, No. 32 second floor, 4 cubicles on sitting room, and on the third floor the same. In No. 34, first floor, there were 5 cubicles and one room, on the second floor, '4 cubicles and ope'sitting❘amine the foundation. Mr. Pearson reported 1 grabbing of his country, in modern' parlance
room:
The third floor was not fitted up for sailors and there were no cubicles,
to me that the wals were sound and goad. I pity were the Chartered Company allowed believe I told the owner of the property, Chung Chew instructed me to get out plans for an ad- The second floor of No. 33 was occupied by ditional storey and alter the cook bosses. I had a man, who moved in a few days previous to the house measured by Mr. Stewart, a draughts the accident. I do not remember his name. It
man. Mr. Stewart made the plans under my was used as as family house at a rental of $32. supervision, plan D le the original one show. The top floor of No. 32 was let to Lum Hung, at ing the alterations! to No. 32. I sent it to $26 a month. I have not my rent book with me. the P. W. D. and obtained the permit marked The Wah Kee Arm has done work for me D. P. Plan C. was prepared in my office
under any-pretext whatever to take this country. It is now peaceful and the chronic rebellion in their own territory would soon extend to Lawas and Brunei, apart from the fact that they cannot properly develop! what they have already, The Governor of course has no official standing whatever in Brunei and cannot visit the Bultan except in a private capacity without contravening article II of the Treaty of 17th Sept, 1888. H.B.M. Consul is the only official medium of com munication between the Sultan and B. N.
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before. There was no written contract. There I sent plan B with a tracing and after obtain-Borneo or other States and he has been away was a verbal agreement as to price, which wading a permit and handing plan overto the owner .53,350. That included all the alterations to I had nothing more to do with it. As far as both houses. I showed the plans to the remember I did the same with regard to contractor (plans B. and E. produced) I also No. 34. Mr. Pearson went and saw the walls showed him the verandah plans. I went of No. 34. Mr. Stewart took the measurements and saw how the work was getting on always and made the plan marked E. I did not go to ence a day, and sometimes two or three times a either of the houses myself, If a wall was bad day. I gave orders to the contracter from time one could fell by its outward appearance. A wall Lime how the work was to be done. The might be alright in its external facings and yet contractor had the plans.
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