The foundation and structure of the Parliament building are perfect-Ty safe. The trouble is caused by the peculiar behaviour of the! magnesian limestone from Austen which the Houses of Parliament are built, This stone is an excellent bhard stone itself, but it has the bad fault of not being uniform in tex-sure. "It contains what the experts call "planes of cleavage," and what happens is that where these occur bank's service, get about Frs. 800) the stone tends to split, so that large and a few attain to Frs. 1,000 a es drop off from isolated por-menu Se Mamn'ave ald aso as he pnaeler=wkich per cut. ess firing suka oe cone oot aa he cheban"attnae gaan aod her ples On the other sie, of deer sais hea the sao rae 'Another cause of decay in the before the war, salaries have been before the war, salaries have been pinnacles is that the iron rod which whic! Funs through them has rusted Bank clerks are, beter off tobe dismissed at a few days' notice workers in not bein than ome ace and berat the stone wrecking the the Pinnacle.
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