CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889 — Page 141

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up for settlement by adding to the height of the wall as it

subsides. I do not, by any regard this process

or

aa

Ariana

satisfactory

admissible, unless it be

inevitable under the

circumstances. On this point. however, I should prefer not to express a final opinion, untit the further data are at hand. from the Surveyor General, as to the modified section for the wall which he appears

to have in contemplation in the 17th paragraph of his Report i e provided his proposed. further investigations

as to

the

the nature of the bottom, and of

the Works of a sin

similar character

already executed, appear to justify

a departure in this respect from the design for the wall hitherto

adopted.

12. With regard to the concrete-in mass proposed for the rubble berm in my Report 8th December 1888, this should of 28 Dec

consist of one portion of cemont to five of gravel and sand, deposited through a shoot of about 8 square internally, having a hopper

eceiver

at the

top end. This shoot would

extend from the working

platform

3

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