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Then they were passed without any comment

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28 Q.

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Now, Mr Perkins, you have gitch some kind of attention 14228

lately to the matter of congrating floors 7

I have not gone into it much.

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I am quite sure your technical knowledge will be sufficient to give all the answers I require. Sections

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111 and 112 of our Ordinano« (quotes) Do you see the

marginal note of that?

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You.

30 Q.

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"Until impermeable floors have been, provided",

Yes.

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32 Q.

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83 Q.

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Do you think that six inches of lime concrete, made with

lime such as is procurable in Hongkong, will make a

good impermeable floor ↑

I am bound to say I am rather prejudiced against lime,

I will ask you to drop your prejudice for a minute. I/4232 want to know from your experience in Hongkong, and what you have seen of Hongkong lime, whether it is capable of making a floor that is impermeable ↑

It is capable. Under the highest theoretic conditions, you can get a magnificent lime, but I doubt in actual

We have been practice, it is very rarely obtainable,

making experiments the last few years with spectnene im the laboratory, and this was a shell lime, made from coral, and it stood a test of 99 lbs per square isoh,

in fourteen days.

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Can you give me, off hand, a specification of good line concrete, for section lll. I dont want you to confuss that with such a concrets as would have to bear any tonsile strength, and is subject to any great maunt of

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You ask me for a good lime concrete, and I think there