PARK STANDS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10995, 19 June 1901, Page 10

PARK STANDS.

TO THE EDITOn OF THE PHESS. S; r# Having taken five Feats for my famiiv I am naturally anxious about the stability of the>e wtiinds, particularly as I have been informed by a builder of over forty veers' experience in one of the largest firms ikiie. that, althe;ugh the timbers composing them are heavy and amply strong and well placed <md braced, the danger lies in their being fastened together with nails only, and tht»e a great deal too small for' Hi- Hzt- of the timber and the weight they will have to carry, instead of being nv-rliixd or bolted together with iron bolts and nuts, and in cfi ,: t* they were to beufin t<i sway with th? movement of the crowd on the sNith!* the:? would be a risk of tin , '! , collapsing. If this is th-c case, their ought t<i l>? at unci- strengthened by .stays goin , .' out at the back of the stands from the top. in the stiTna manner as the Government stand adjoining, which is not nrnrly m, hirl). nnrl not .>■•!> likely to be affected by any swayin , : as the public rtar.ds. There oni»ht a>.o to In , more tir.il larger nails put into ih« main timbers where they are joined together, r.s my informant says the present nails are barely large enough to cam , the -ho.ivy timber alone, without the hundreds of people that will be on them.— Yours, etc..