Copra and its Preparation 399 



of the structure. For those crops where light 

 is needed, windows can be provided, and in the 

 original drawing they were introduced into 

 the second half of the building, and can be 

 seen by the light spaces up the wall on the 

 left-hand elevation of the cross section. In 

 making the block, however, want of space 

 caused us to cut the building back to the 

 spiral staircase as shown. 



The building shown would stand about 40 

 to 50 ft. high by 100 ft. long. Many of 

 our critics maintain this is far too high to 

 safely withstand strong winds, and also on 

 account of the cost it would run into, say, 

 500 for fans and heaters, ,1,500 for the 

 building itself complete, plus packing, freight 

 across the water and transport to the estate 

 on the other side, say, 500 to 1,000 more. 

 The idea, however, can be equally well utilized 

 with large shelves running on rails, that is, with 

 the same floor area cut up into sections and 

 provided with large iron rings to enable the 

 men to run them out on to rails under cover 

 of roofs extending on both sides of the build- 

 ing, when the dried copra could be let 

 through a trap-door into a cart or receptacle 

 below, to be taken away and cooled before 

 being shipped (see p. 402). In the taller build- 

 ing the copra could also be raised and lowered 

 through the floors, instead of outside, provided 

 the owners did not mind the loss of floor space 

 this would necessitate. 



