142 BUILDING STONES OF QUEENSLAND. 



In the front of Shaw & Sons building (1904) and the 

 fronts of Finney's building (1910) on both Queen and 

 Adelaide Streets friezes of dark marble with white stripes 

 were placed. 



In each case the marble was polished and exposed to 

 the weather. The result has been that the polish has been 

 lost and the marble is opening up along the cracks. It 

 will be a question of only a few years before the marble will 

 have to be removed. Marble slabs, and particularly polished 

 ones, are quite unsuitable for external work if they are to 

 be exposed to the Aveather. In the Queen Street front of 

 Finney's building the marble front on either side of the 

 entrance Avas exposed to the weather and lost its polish 

 within a very short time, Avith the result that the firm 

 erected shoAA^ cases oA'er the places the marble had prcA'iously 

 occupied. 



In Parbiiry House there is a good deal of mural decor- 

 ation in marble w^hich was imported from Italy. 



In the GoA'ernment Savings Bank the marble being used 

 for mural decoration AAas obtained from New South Wales, 

 also the black and rouge marbles used in the State Fish 

 Shop. 



Imported Limestones. 



The Oamaru limestone from Ncaa' Zealand has been 

 used to some extent in Brisbane. 



The columns and carA-ed Avork above them on the 

 Queensland National Bank (1882), are of this stone and it 

 appears to be AAcathering A"ery aa'cII. 



In the Albert Street Methodist Church (1886) the stone 

 has been used to a large extent for the facings, spire and 

 fence around the church. The stone is not Aveathering 

 well and in the fence it has decayed particularly, so much 

 so, that at the end of 1916 the limestone AA^as plastered over. 

 Erosion of the soft stone b}- wind-borne particles played a 

 large part in the Avearing away of the fence material. 



The Mansions (1887) in George Street contains a good 

 deal of this stone in the facings and fence ; the ornamental 

 cats at each end of the building are of this material. 



On St. Stephen's Cathedral there are two sjaires con- 

 structed of this stone. Avhile at the Brisbane Grammar 

 School there is a porch of the same material. 



