CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877 — Page 20

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lippes

and

repacted in the

manner

provided for after the filling at the rear of the Wall has setter and beevend

consolidated, which settlement would

Canse

Cracko

in

a

continuous concreti

aur tvr

in a

would beg to

position le devise, I

observer

that any

Wall

which

is finished

at

such a

low

level

ao

1.74 9

ino.

alove high water

and

is

breved

with

a.....

roadway of

of the character which

wvuld

apper lobe

essentail

in

this

cannot be regarded as

coating, and possibly expose the filling

underneath to the action of typhoon

Deas.

7.

would

The Wall Thire suggested

be

more costly than that

proposed by Mr Price, but as far

line

ao

J

avv

in

a position to

the

cun

be

jeidge it would afford ad

elements of safety which

obtained

unde

the

adverse conditions.

high

of restricted height above water, and

the undesirability of advancing the sito

seaward to which

of the wall seaward.

allusion

has been already made.

Whilst however I put forward

this

wall

A-o

being the best that I

absolutely morf against damage from

tremendous forces of typhoon sexo,

the

neither

CH vr

more

it be expected to afford.

than imperfect probction to

the Buildings abutting

Roadway.

the

on

weit

this

vien

I wenty

suggest for the consideration of the

surveyor Several whether in

exent

thi

of further reclamations being

undertaken

hereafter the additional

expense involved in the formation

of

arn

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