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A.
216
Irt. Frommer eve
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place,
would be a Government Department ?
I mean a responsible Board. You have your own Surveyor and own . O. H. quite independent of the P. W. D.
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You mean to say that our Executive Engineer should be under the orders and jurisdiction of this Board ?
Yes.
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A.
°7 Q.
And if that were so, it would be an improvement ? 17.507 Yes, I think so.
A.
08. Q.
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In England, can you remember whether it was necessary
to obtain any permission to occupy a building, after it had been erected?
A.
HO
not in my time.
The Chairman:-
Do you think it is now, Mr Turner ?
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07
A.
I have never heard of it.
Q❤
A.
You probably would know, if it were so ?
Yes, think I should.
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Mr Shelton Hooper:-
You think the Municipal Authorities there safeguarded
A.
12 8.
A.
13 Q.
the public interests by causing inspections to be made from time to time during the progress of the work, to see they were in accordance with the plans ?
I should say 10.
About the concrete floors here. Under the ordinance, '772-
floors have to be laid with six inches of lime concrete
to be approved by the Board. Do you think it possible
to pay a floor of six inches of lime concrete that
shall be impervious ?
I doubt about lime concrete being impervious.
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Can you tell us if it is on account of the badness of
the individual materia's specified, or the bad
workmanship generally
Lime concret i net i parvious“,
A.
14
Q.
Is it possible
o ma lime concrete impervious ? 17574
A.
I dont think
through i Murse
. A certain amount of damp would work
r time.
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