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or damaged whether the cement tested was taken from the surface or from the heart of the casks- the exact method adopted for weighing and filling the Strike Bushel - The amount

of water used on making up the briquettes - the temperature at the time of making them up -

and last, but not by any means least, the past experience of the

Resident Engineer.

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The Resident Engineer says it would be "interesting for "our guidance to receive details "of the Tests carried out by the "Inspecting Engineer in the "brown agents Department on "the particular consignments

"per

"per "Glenogle" and "Chang Wo"-

I hope the enclosed Yest Reports will be of interest, and that the following account of the tests and the method of making them, will be instructive

At the risk of being tedious I

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feel it

ony dutry to make the account ample on its details - and may add that the methods adopted have been certainly satisfactory judging by results. as out of the hundreds of thousands of casks sent different Colonies only one complaint, to my knowledge, has ever been received, and in that case it was proved that the Colonial Engineer ignorant as the Resident Engineer of the

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