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visit to Shanghae. I found the building progressing - rapidly and satisfactorily.

I have te.

(signed) TW. Mitchell, Postmaster General;

√(True Copy.)

Sandals Martin

a

Colonial Secretary.

(Copy)

faring Site

Trenches for

Fundations

undations

of Concrete

Specification of the Work to be

performed in the Erection of a Post Office

at

Shanghae

for the Colonial Government of Hongkong

The site to be cleared and levelled, trees cut down and the old stumps removed, Trenches for Foundations to be then marked out and sunk- for the main walls 4 feet below the present surface and to be 4 feet wide, trenches for the smaller walls to be 3 feet wide and 3 feet deep

Fill in trenches to surface level with

concrete in 12 in

layers,

each layer to be

:sposed of (5) five

parts

separately rammed and consolidated.

The concrete to be co..

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