CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3] — Page 363

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such observations

spirit

be received in the

inay

they are offered,

and

that they

not taken as in

any way intending

to or firms,

lest on individualo

to reflect

but

simply as prompted by a desire to place myself in touch with the

Engineers

at

home

terials

inaterialo

otte

concerning the

the excellence of which

mutually interested in securing. reports from the Colonies are

wa

Such

often useful

to the Crown Agents who I am

evere

would not like to discourage them.

my

letter to

oh

you of the 7th of June 1886, I stated I was able

to confirm, from personal knowledge,

the

སོ་སོ་ག་གས་དཀ་དར་གདབྱེ

of the tests that had

been made under

under my

directions

the Resident Engineer. This

nothing.

by

than the fact, and I

do not therefore desire to disclaim

my povsonal responsibility for the

test,

or to leave

my

merely carried out my instructions. At an earlier period of my professional life

I personally designed and created cement.

Fi

Works in the in

and

midway

Area

Rochester,

I have since had a continuous

practical experience of reearly twenty five years

in the uses and

testing of Portland Cement. I conscientionely feel therefore that Mr Stangein crificiens are not deserved. Much might be put -

forward by

me in vindication.

of the

test made here under my directions,

but it

can

serve

tro

useful purpose now

to begin in these pages a professional n

no

polemia on Cement -

testing,

the

only result of which would be to appear to place me in antagonism with the Impecting Officers appointed by Her Majesty' Governme on a question has already been adjudicated on by the Secretary of State

subordinate

Officer

6.

alone to the consequences of having

ment.

that

There is no material in the

purchase of which large

Consumero

avre

merely