WEAK SCAFFOLDS.
(7'o the Editor.) Sir, —Would yon be kind enough to insert a fow lines in your paper as I have a f6w words to say concerning tho serious accident at Dio new tolcgi aph office. I must say Hbat I never saw swell a scaffold, with suckiHatenal hr ruiuuiig' baV row's bf bricks and cement, in'all my life, and LbSye been
in the building trade. The idea of loading a scaffold with tons on it—it was a mercy it did not.break down the nigbt before, as I never saw a scaffold loaded with bricks like that was. It w r as enough to break the strongest scaffold as could be made. 11 is a gieat shame men’s lives shonld be sacrificed the way they are. The scaffold was too great a span wide to be carried by red pine ledgers and needles, and the contractors was told by the scaffolder that it was too great a span, but he said. hj« would not have them put in the middle of the path—ho must put his standards on the ontside of the path. The span was I daresay nine or ten feet wide, while that of a proper scaffold is about four feet six inches. I see that since the accident thei e is bine gum in the scaffold, as there ought to have been in the first place. There ought to bo an inspector to see that scaffolding is made properly in Dunedin.—l am, &0., John Francis. Dnnedin, July 27.
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Evening Star, Issue 4186, 27 July 1876, Page 4
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252WEAK SCAFFOLDS. Evening Star, Issue 4186, 27 July 1876, Page 4
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