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in the

way

been carried out by Mr. Price, but he insists upon the absolute necerity of the dam being built

he describes, and which is also shown in the accompanying plan, and that the inner face

the dam shall be made absolutely water tight by

of

a liberal use of Portland Cement. Sir R. Rawlinson is also unable to consent to the

Surveyor General's proporal to use Chinese hydraulic lome concrete for the upper part of the dam and he points out that the use of the best materials now will in the end prove the truest economy inasmuch as if by the use of inferior materials in the

Construction

of

the Dam

w

leakage

leakage should hereafter

occur the Expenditure in attempts to enake

good any weakness will be enormously increased even if it should be possible to correct or close such up after the dam has been completed.

In this connection I may perhaps be allowed to express the satisfaction with which we have noticed the high testimony which

Mr. Prive bears to the excellent quality of the Cement which we have sent out for the work, although this testimony is only in accordance with that which reaches us from all other Colonies which we have supplied with Cement, and it will be seew from the Consulting