CHINESE PUZZLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13603, 25 May 1908, Page 3

CHINESE PUZZLE.

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Crosby Hall is »'><• aft«--r «»• io ,K " i,,sl In London or tlie nation. An anonymm.. don.r li:«i "' Te, ' ef - 1 £5-000 l» Wi,rd: * l " 4 ' („• -,l" of £10.020 I2i[iiiiv.i t<> renmw ilie ancient hall Ir»ni its jtcs-mU «le m l|.Miand r-trecl urn Lhvlsea. «1.-.e if will be used as a Lmvcrsitr Hall and for other educational and instructive l>ml"'Th- work "f transferrin" tin- <>! d buddin- to its new site will not be so .ulticull as it illicit at fir t sight 'IM» ••'- Such r-iimvak aiv not uncommon, but tVv ar>- not- accomplished f.-o easily as m America, where it is said, a building i< lifted bodilv «n to a wheeled platform, and cartod "to its new position. In Hi'.-s old and >low count iv the process is slower and nioiv •■laborate. Crosby Hall will !«■ pulk-d down and built up again much as a child's house of bricks is taken to pieces a:id put t<>-ireth'-r a-jain. 'l'lie greatest- ear- has. of tours--, to b- exercised in ih< work, and detailed plan, h-v- to be prepare;! <.ii ii consid.iabk- s-al<-. 'l'i:e most miportani. ronsiii-ratioii i-< tfie numbering of tlu- stotn-s and. iiid-il. of evciYthing in the old building.

Stone l>v J>tone the building v. i'li l-o taken to piece*, and as ..aeh rtone ... it moved .< niiiiiber and. p ilia;>>. :•!:••' •' letter will I)!- paint. don U. Kveryi lim-„' will be carted t» Cli.-Isca. There <a<!i stone will be carefully laid in the ]»>-: tion which it formerly 00-upied. and when lie- work is completed Crosby Hall will b- itself again. It. will be u-el for concerts, picture exhibition.-, lectin•■■>:. xecitaLr, and as a place ol public meeting