CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12] — Page 376

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to report as follows ._

Jire

portion of retaining wall alluded

to was undertation by Contractor Yong-

Gun. Contract 14.10 of 1559 comprising

Items

fracture occurred

the extreure vo

is in the

height 34 feet and immediately adjoins

Retaining

wall of 20 fect in height

a

cross

of the

sarve

of work

work for

the sum

of $5,550

and is specified " for the erection of Retaining

" and Boundary Walls &c : for the proposed extension of Victoria

Gast.

The items immediately in

with this wall

to the erection of

are to 1.

zion

refering

the wall, and the 2

to the levelling of ground adjoining;

the plans for the work

were similar.

to those of all other walls crected of equal height in the Gad

which have farled

The height of

in

any part

wall where the

character, the details of

the work I presume I med not

vrvove

specially refer to, or extract from

the specifications .-_

and

Chancery Lane is only 15 fist wide

during the excution of the orginal work, extending from the Old nor

Burley to Arbuthnot Road distance of 430 jest, only

ave

αυυτο

house.

was

finished at the Old Barley and,

and the Lane then and even now-

little used as

public thoroughfare.

Very considerable difficulty occurred in this work the ground being