CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 365

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them as

involving

arr

outlay

Awel

constructive complication which I

hardly justified in recommending.

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Suring the heat

of

the

day

the sashes.

should all be

opened, so that the

sun could not strike on the gloss

and heat the bu

building

as Mr Wills

supposes.

Note G.

I have purposely kept

the windows of moderate size having regard to typhoons. Mr. Wills submitted

to are a sketch sho

sketch showing

wraidervs

on the upper floor several times as

large

as shove I proposed, and I took occasion to point out to him the increased risk there was of

their being blown in by a strong gale.

Stoke H.

Jui

As already explained my

minute when I first laid the Market designs before Ur Wills

on

Hope G

Note H

temperature must be raised. Jalousies are it secure to

essential if

the building

kept as cool as

possible.

22. Le

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is to be

Architectural Treatment.

The internal appearance of

the-

building would I thuck be unsatisfactory not because it will be necessarily plain but from the great number and small size of the windows, the appearan

ance of

the roof / particularly where the 2 cross roops occur) I am of opinion

that the interior can be made.

to look

very.

well without an

increase of cost.

Externally also d

the

great

number

think the present design far from satisfactory, of windows, want of marked difference in treatment between

the two stories, the towers which

to be

without

seen to nie

costly

being

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