Wooden Supports for Seventy-Years Old House: Building Programme Shored up by a mass of timber, ithe French Municipal Council build: ing presents an unusual sight to passers-by in Rue clu Consular and Avenue Edward VII. True, the building has nearly reached the age of three score years and ten, and will have accomplished the allotted span of a man's life by the time it becomes disused, but it ig-no inherent weakness in the structure that, hag caused the Jamazing collection of wooden supports to be placed around it.
The rebuilding programme of the French Municipal Council has Jgommenced. Two years ago. the "North-China" told of the alterations to made in the Lot of ground at present occupied by the "Hotel Municipal," and the scheme for rebuilding ' it in the vicinity of Avenue Joffre and Route Lorton has also been published.
"The present shoring-up of, the municipal build Mallet of the police to the north fare chiefly measures of protection, Poste Mallet is being ret Iready been up by pil engag in' this work "has been anticipated, and the municipal iding, which has to last for another year or two, has consequently been protected.
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