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8.

locally if Sir John Goods would be good enough to define the quantity of concrete he considers necessary to expply

supply a skelsh

of the apparates

which has been found most convenient in

wes for depositing

for depositing the concrete

similar cases

in silu.

9.

Fourth recommendation.

Sir John Coonté's proposal te consolidată

the rubble mound is one which from personal

of a similar

experience, acquired

n works

character, I consider of the greatest importance, and I have therefore given the matter ~

most

el

careful

consideration. It is obvious that

the safety not only of the Praya Wall, but of

the roads and

absolutely

buildings on the stability of the foundation

in its rear, depends

which the wall rest; i. e.

of the rubble bank

on

or mound on which the wall is built. Witherto

the practice has been to build the wall on this mound, and since the rubble necessarily settles as it receives the weight of the experstructure, the upper

are

cor RLV

of the

the wall

to

so raised, fitted, and adjusted,

ao

eneure

7

L

eroure, ao

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far as practicable, a true line both laterally and vertically.

for the coping

Some miles of reclamation walls have in

the

past been.

executed in this

mamier,

and on the whole, sofar as I am able to judge from a limited personal observation, the result is fairly satisfactory. Whether any

of failure have occurred is not quite clear . I have heard reference

cases

on the Howloon side

ce made

to a cas

of the Harbour, but

have not yet succeeded in obtaining

case

authentic details. But it must be borne in

mind that the earlier reclamation

embankments were,

generally speaking, carried out in a much smaller depth of water than that along the line of the proposed

new

the

Praya. Moreover in the case of rubble mound just completed at Kennedy town (to which references has been abready

pagests and 5) in

made, see

with

in connexion.

a reclamation now being carried out under the Public Works Department;

Honourable P. Chater, in a co-

" for the comparatively

great