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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13289, 18 May 1907, Page 5

Concrete is by no means a new building material The* Romans -were building in concrete, after. five different- fashions, five hundred years before the bivth of Christ. The great dome of the pantheon is of concrete. An upper floor in the House of Vestals consisted of a slab of concrete more than-a foot thick and twenty feet across. Of later date are the concrete foundations of the Salisbury Cathedral, the walls of Corpe Castle, and much of the walls of Rochester Castle: The advocates of concrete have simply discovered an old building method. The advance; it has made is largely due to the invention and the. cheapening of Portland cement. Mr A. Adams, Havelock, Marlborough, X.Z., says:—"l consider that Chamberlain's Tablets are anA.L. remedy, and the most efficient procurable for all disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels. T have used them for some time, deriving the greatest benefit, and have every: confidence iii■•: recommending them to *U in need of juc-h a medicine. For sale •verywhere....