TOP HAMPER FROM WOOL.
Many tons of ornamental masonry and. top hamper are being cut away from the upper walls of the Harbour Board building, generally known as the wool store, just to the north of the Queen's Wharf gates and housing the Harbour Master's and general public offices. The building was erected about 1897, when top hamper was the thing in design and when the thorough tying of the walls by steel reinforced bands was the exception, and the work in hand will strengthen the building considerably as regards earthquake resistance. The concrete of ■ the upper bands is exceedingly hard, but on the southern wall fairly serious cracks have developed and these are to be closed and the wall solidly bonded. The Hafbour Board has ordered a new form of scaffolding for this and other works and this should- be on hand shortly. It is a tubular scaffolding recently adopted in Britain for a wide variety of purposes and temporary constructions, as, for instance, the building of the miles of stands for Coronation procession spectators. It is remarkably light, strength for strength, as compared with other scaffolding materials, and is rapidly erected. and
removed,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 11
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195TOP HAMPER FROM WOOL. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 11
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