30. Australian: Nineteenth Century Building Materials
(p) Victoria. Parliament. Building Stone. Melbourne 1858.
Victorian Government Prize Essays 1860. Melbourne 1861. Includes Charles Mayes 'On the Manufactures more immediately required for the Economical Development of the Resources of the Colony'.
(p) Victoria. Legislative Assembly. Report from the Select Committee upon the Mount Difficult Stone for Parliament House. Melbourne 1882.
(p) Australasian Ironmonger, I, 7 (1 October 1886). Includes a letter from Macpherson & Co, of Townsville, about the demand for a standard pitch for corrugated iron; reports on the manufacture of cement in Australia and New Zealand; and a report of the Scientific and Mechanical Exhibition in Sydney.
(p) A Liversidge. 1. Experiments on the Waterproofing of Bricks and Sandstones with Oils. 2. Experiments upon the Porosity of Plasters and Cements. Brisbane 1895.
See also:
(sec 32) Mayes, Australian Builders' Price-Book
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