CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 362

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Note C.

Further investigation

confirms the opinion I have arrived.

at (after going fully into the matter)

of the advis.

advisability

in the whole of

adopting timber wistead of iron for

the roof trusses. I was favour of iron, but on

working the matter out, it is found that iron. will cost about hoice as much as

originally in

timber. Moreover the

ui

practice good buildings

of the with

roofs

Colony of similar.

span is in favour of timber.

Note C.

this system of flooring,

calculating

the floor to

which will be in

by

358

11⁄2 cut

avra

carry

my opinion

amply shong enough.

I also think that half the

columns might be dispensed with

with advantage. and that they would be better of wrought steel than cast iron. This change would

the Congth

render it casier to

arary

of frontages of the shops

ground floor.

av

Rook. The roof proposed

the trusses being 12 feet

is of word, the trusses

apart

the

reasons poriited out in

your report of the 5th February 1890

for adopting

benig

a wooden roof

that the roof should be filed

to keep the build.

building

cove

that the expansion, and contraction

of iron in a

hot chiriate world.

tend to crack the tiling. This

roof is complicated by

Love cr^LO

woof