SHAVINGS

Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 2

SHAVINGS

Sincils arc usually finished with knofings or thin shellac varnish, but a mob better way is to use raw linseedoil and to allow plenty of time for t to soak in. Varnish thinned witlturpentine may also be used, and whe time is limited a good quality gdldlzo, thinned with turpentine, is exciient. .t* * * *

' Brore cemented work may bo safely paired over it must be coated to keep thc.ilkali from injuring the oil paint, and foi this purpose it is generally clil-ederl that nothing is better as an inalator than a solution of sulphate of zinc, in the ratio of 31b of zinc sulhate tc a gallon of water.

I; Santa Rosa, California, XJ.S.A., thee is a - church with 400 seating capcity which was built entirely of thetimber produced from one redwood tre<. The hardware and the glass wen the only materials, not obtained frm this source. The church is 60 x DOft. After the roof was finished it ras found there were 60,000 shingles loffc . * * *

Che of the most impressive features of tie scheme for building Auckland’s new railway station is the monumeiial set of plans prepared for the guidnce of tb© builders' and sub-con-tracors, states the ' New Zealand Decrator.’ The architects, Messrs Gunmc; and. Ford, have prepared eiglly large structural drawings for the extensive steelwork, as well as a hundred of more detailed drawings, accounting for every brick, every piece of gass and every rivet and bolt. The specfications ana schedule of quantities resemble a small library.

Simebody in facetious vein once said tha: the nearest thing to perpetual motion was Queen street in Auckland, an opinion possibly formed by the fact thal the footpaths and roadways are gererally in ‘ a state of either being puled up or put down, while there is alvays something to be found in the way of a barricade blotting out half of the sidewalk during the reconstruc;iffi ol some building. The skyline of Qifeen street is ever changing, the only praspect of uniformity being that all biddings may eventually reach the masimim sky-line limit imposed by a City Coined which is not anxious that city biddings shall soar in the manner of those of Los Angeles and New York. Maybe, by the time that the hundredfoit or thereabouts altitude and uniformity line is reached, the Auckland building limit may be notched up a ICOFt or so and so there is a prospect that the upward tendency may be something in the nature of an unfixed quantity.