CAUSES OF FAILURE
MELBOURNE BUfLDING COLLAPSE
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(DOTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIGHI.) (Received 26th June, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The into the collapse of the British-Australian Tobacco Company's building was resumed. ' Robert Boan, engineer of tests in charge of the Victorian Railways Labora tory, eaid that tests of concrete taken from the building after the collapse showed that the ratio of the materials varied from 10.5 to 15.7 of sand and stone to 1 of cement, whareas the specifications provided for cement 1, sand- 2 stone 4. t George Albert Royal, clerk of work* at the job, said that, a beam 34ft in length and 74in thick, provided for in the btewart street walls, was not put in in tho second, third, and fourth floors.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 5
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125CAUSES OF FAILURE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 5
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