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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