534
or damaged whether the cement tested was taken from the surface or from the heart of the casks - the exact method adopted for weighing and filling the Strike Bushel - The amount of water used on making up the briquettes - the temperature at the time of making them up - and last, but not by any means least, the past experience of the Resident Engineer.
Tests of Portland cement
26.
as a
The Resident Engineer says it would be "interesting for our guidance to receive details of the Tests carried out by the Inspecting Engineer in the Department on the particular consignments per "Glenogle" and "Chang Wo".
I hope the enclosed Test Reports will be of interest, and that the following account of the tests and the method of making them, will be instructive.
At the risk of being tedious I feel it my duty to make the account ample in its details - and may add that the methods adopted have been certainly satisfactory judging by results, as out of the hundreds of thousands of casks sent to different Colonies only one complaint, to my knowledge, has ever been received, and in that case it was proved that the Colonial Engineer was as ignorant as the Resident Engineer of the ...