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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 130, 26 February 1920, Page 5

A laTge gathering of Nelson FamioTs' Co-operative' shareholders unanimously resolved to amalgamate with Hie Now Zealand Fanners' Co-operative Association, Christchurch, on terms to he arranged at a later date—Press Assn. One of the oddest houses in the world is that erected at Yokohama by a noted bacteriologist. It is ft dii=t-pvoof, airproof, microbe-proof building of glass. Large panes of ghiss one-half-inch thick, and about four inches apart, are set in iron frames, so as fo form the Ride? of a cellular building block. Of these, blod™ the walls are constructed. There are :o window sashes, Hip air-escape being through the several small openings around the upper part of the second story, but through, which no air from outside is admitted. The air simply is obtained from a considerable distance, forced through a pipe and carefully filtered through cotton-wool to cleanse it of bacteria. To ensure further sterilisation the air is driven against a glycerine-coated lilato of glass, which captures nil tho microbes tho wool spares. The few microbes brought into the house in. tho clothes of -visitors soon die in the warm sunlight with which the place is flooded.