ALLEGED BUILDING FRAUD.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FOLLOWS. (bi cable—press association—coptmght.) (australian and k.z. casls association.) (Received Juno 29th, 8.40 p.m.) MELBOURNE. June 29At the conclusion, of the inquest in connexion with tha collapse of the British-Australasian Tobacco Company's promises, the coroner committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. Francis Davis, architect, Robert Ashley Coper, ono of the contractors, and George Albert Royal, clerk of -works. Nominal bail was allowed. [ln the course of the enquiry, Robert Boan, engineer of tests in charge ot the Victorian Railways Laboratory, said that tests taken from the building after its collapse Bliowed that the ratio varied from 10.5 to 16.7 of sand and stone to one of cement, whereat the specifications provided for one of cement to two of sand and four of stone. Royal said that beams 34ft in length and 7J in thick provided for in the Stewart street waifs, were not put in in the second, third, and fourth rioors.]
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18421, 30 June 1925, Page 9
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159ALLEGED BUILDING FRAUD. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18421, 30 June 1925, Page 9
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