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be in good condition, scattered among the others wh.ci.

were in bad condition?

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Yes, I should say that they got hold of a honest contractor in the case of the five per cent.

Where were they dispernød ?

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I really cant locate them. record. The locality I am speaking of is Bonhar. Strand.

15-245- Now, it is rather a serious thing to say that 95 per cent of these floors were bad, and it was cwing tu dishonest contractors. Kaynt it be that thene floors

were good, and that if you had supervised their putting

down, you would have passed them at the time, tut

through circumstances

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water percolating and bad

treatment of the floor by the tenants, is that not

possible to arize ?

Yes, it is possible to arise, with indifferent material in the first place.

I mean to say with good material ?

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Yes, good material, when indifferently filled in, all the time on the lower level.

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Ahout, from your experience, how long do you think a perfectly good fluor, such as you would pass at the time, of lime concrete would last without going entirely bud ?

Not under ten years, if I could supervise the mixing. And would that be gradual ?

Certainly.

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And would all this defect arise from the dam in the

bottom,?

To a great extent on the lower level.

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