2860.
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Page 1589. q. 14242. You cant get a sufficient
quantity of it?
The answer is. I have made nearly 1,000 tests here
of different kinds of lime, and it is rare to get any which does not contain a large proportion of some inert material, in fact, the whole is often dead,
before you get it on the ground. It is seldom that
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any of it will stand a big strain. I have formed red
earth alone into briquettes Shich have stood a strain
of 25 lbs per square inch.
Page 1689. q. 14244.Do you know that that is the
conorate &o ?
Mr Perkins says the next question is really part
of his answer. "Two thirds of the pipes that I have
put down both in London and Bristol, did not have any
concrete around them.
Page 1696. q. 14293. So that part of the work is
passed by your assistant. You dont hava the time ?
The answer should be: Yen, but even when examining
work personally, one sometimes passes work on the
Boore of expediency, which should he condemned. There
is a job I am carrying out now, the carrying out of
which endangers a lot of adjoining property, which has
to be propped up on shoring, to get the work finished
as quickly as possible is therefore of more
importance in such a case that condemning a small
portion of work not built quite up to standard. Mr
Haggard, the assistant engineer in the office,
inspects frequently, and I also go around as often
as possible.
Witness withdraws.
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