BUILDING COLLAPSE
SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE,-June 26. At the inquiry into the collapse of the British Tobacco Coy.’s building, Robert Boan, Engineer of- Tests, and in charge of the Victorian Railways laboratory, said that tests taken from the building after the collapse showed the ratio varied from 10.5 to 15.7 of sand and stone to one of cehieht, Whereas the specifications provided for one of cement to two of sand and four of stone. George Albert Royal, clerk of works at the job, said that beams, thirty-four feet in length and 7A inches thick, provided for in the Stewart Street walls, were not put in the second, third and tourth floors.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1925, Page 5
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