MELBOURNE INQUEST.
MEN KiELED BY COLLAPSE OF BUILDING, ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association MELBOURNE. Juno 17. An inquest has commenced touching tho deaths of lour men. killed bv the collapse of the Tobacco Company’s ■ building. 1 The Crown called evidence to show
that the yand contained impurities and that tho method of mixing the concrete was wrong, ju that it12 per cent of water, resulting in the concrete being .weakened by 40 p*T cent. - It was also contended that the steel reinforcements w«re badlv plac®d jn tome of the concrete columns. and that others had insufficient rods in them.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17567, 18 June 1925, Page 4
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