CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 509

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"and by forming the roof nearly flat, with durable tiles laid

in cernent to render it so

shong that is future Typhoon could seriously damage it, to many years. At the time the

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narrow escape with their lives of those who had occnfied the place during the

Typhoons of last September shewed the necessity of being some flace of secure refuge. Provision was

therefore winte in the flaws for the construction

escafe

of a strong cellar with an at the North and South sides of the building. The slope of the

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"ground to the south reuvered the drainage of such a cellar ferfectly easy- and altogether he felt warranted in recommending the proposed flaws, in case the Council thought any

action in the matter desirable.

"We Clark, Acting Assistant

Surveyor beverns, who had been entrusted with preparation of the flaws and the

general suferintendence of the Building is then called in, and in

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reply

questions but by the Honorable The Major General,

gives full explanations as to the difficulty of finding