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KOWLOON SfATION PROGRESS

... this does not give a fair oomparison of the progress of the work. Brickwork generally is up to within a few feet of the first floor level. Oranito work is somewhat lower as the brickwork has to precode it. The colonnade to tho Star Ferry is up to roof ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1915
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

REVIEW. Tim Tillage Homes of Wood. The Studio Special Number

... plasterwork, brickwork, flintwork and masonry; the same crafts in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire; stonework in the Eastern Cotswolds; pargeting, timberwork, brickwork and thatching in the Eastern countries; Northern masonry and brickwork; metalwork and ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1912
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 550 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

The Plague

... Ugty-eight hours ended noon on Monday, 20th inst., 11 cases (all fatal). One case occurred in the coolie quarters at the Brick-works in Deep Water Bay, but the majority of the eases occurred in the city of Victoria. —China Mail. April 21. ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1903
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AUSTRALIAN CONSTITU TION

... exhausted. The crisis was due to the Government tacking on to the Appropriation Bill a rote for the vital lishment of a State brickworks. ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1912
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

A Crash!

... residents in the neighbourhood of MorriNon Hill Road were alarmed by a noise resembling an explosion followed by falling brick-work. On inquiry, it was learned that a huge boulder, left sticking on the side of the hill by the excavators, had broken loose ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1902
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

of construction was the tunnel work which comprises 10 per cent. of the total length of the section. In all

... one, were driven wide enough to accomodate a double track, and the span of the arch in all tunnels is 35 feet, lined with brickwork. The drainage is from the end of the tunnels in each instance. As to the labour employed for the tunnel work, first of all ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1910
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

COBTB. sumniouseima sesuseis km sod at alat

... given us me& work we ought to do something fur him 1 personally took instructions from defendant with reference to the brick-works and saw him with reference tr., the matter • great ninny times. By Mr Pitman—l recall to asp es°unmake is to where I met ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1889
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE DEFENCES OF HONGKONG

... below. The cement used is of • particular kind, and requires long time for setting. The superstructure must be of the best brickwork or masonry, and must be erected gradually; and, fiially, when all is completed, unless the walls and ports are protected ...

Published: Thursday 07 May 1885
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REPORT OF THE BOAT rmnurrEE

... made and the joists of the Ist floor are in position and good progress has been made with the brickwork above this level. But for the had weather the brickwork would have been finished by the end of this mouth. I atn of the opinion that the Club will have ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1907
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TYPHOON COLLAPSE INQUIRY

... question. He found that a bar could be got dowu two feet 6 inches below the foundation, but no further. The bonding of the brickwork in tho houses was inferior, the mortar was decidedly so and the bonding of the cross walls into the flank wall was practically ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1908
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

NZW PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Progress Report

... was not until November that all the requisite stone was obtained and set. The other portions of the building, which are of brickwork, were, however, pushed forward with the result that the main part of the building was almost completed by the close of the ...

Published: Tuesday 10 July 1906
Newspaper: Overland China Mail
County: Hong Kong, China
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 24 | Tags: none