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not only in connection with the facilities for installing the plant in the first instance, but also in connection with ease of maintenance, and the location of the nearest railway station, port or canal; and the nature of any roads leading to the proposed aite, or the necessity of constructing additional rouds, should be reported upon.
(13) Labour. The extent to which it would be safe and desirable to employ local labour for the operation of the pover plant should be fully discussed with the local authorities and with local employers; bearing in mind that even in canon where it would be unsafe to employ local labour immediately for certain operations (soh as the driving of turbine machinery) it my be possible to train local mon for such purposes during the preliminary period during which the station will be in the hands of the
Marconi Company.
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Building consi-tera- tions.
(14) The portions of the site upon which the Power House and Operating Building are to be erected should be
as level as possible.
(15) The nature of the subsoil on the sites of the buildings, The Power Station building and the machinery
and if the subsoil is will be of considerable weight, +
thought to have insufficient bearing capacity, it will be necessary to provide against settlement by means of a reinforced concrete raft or by piling: the bearing capacity
If water is per square foot own pʊrhaps be ascertained. likely to be found in the subsoil, its approximate level
can perhaps be stated,
(16) The