THE MELBOURNE BUILDING COLLAPSE
INTERESTING EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY. MELBOURNE, June 26. At the inquiry into the collapse of the British Tobacco Company’s building, Robert Boan, engineer of tests, in charge of the Victorian Railways Laboratory, said that tests taken from the building after the collapse showed that the ratio varied from 10.6 to 1.7 of sand and stone to one of cement, 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 a beam 34ft in length and 7£ inches thick, provided for in the Stewart Street walls, was not put in the second, third, and fourth floors.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19346, 27 June 1925, Page 15
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115THE MELBOURNE BUILDING COLLAPSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19346, 27 June 1925, Page 15
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