CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889 — Page 138

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course to adopt some method

of providing against undue settlement of the rubble mound after the completion of the wall.

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5. As the Surveyor General states in the of the paragraph of his Report, it is obvious that the safety, not only of the Praya Wall, but of the roads

and buildings in its rear depends "absolutely the stability of

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the foundation

on which

the wall rests, i, e, of the rubble

bank. In the latter part of

the

sarne

paragraph he

mentions the case of a

reclamation, then being carned

out

out at Kennedy Town, in

comparatively great depth of

water and mud, and staise

that the settlement there in

the rubble mound during

already been

work.

construction has atrea d,

as much as 10 feet at one part of the

6. Having carefulles considered the question, it

appears to me that in the

absence of such a con.. plete and

effectual measure as the provision of the steam-roller machine,

suggested in my Report of 28th December 1888, it would be wise to adopt the following mode of procedure

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