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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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And if that were so, it would be an improvement ? 17.507 Yes, I think so.

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08. Q.

17.505

In England, can you remember whether it was necessary

to obtain any permission to occupy a building, after it had been erected?

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not in my time.

The Chairman:-

Do you think it is now, Mr Turner ?

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I have never heard of it.

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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

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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“,

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Is it possible

o ma lime concrete impervious ? 17574

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I dont think

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. A certain amount of damp would work

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