THE PRICE OF PAINT.
London has grown very shabby in the years of war (states an English paper) and tho rare bursts of spring sunshine are revealing more plainly than ever tile cracks in the buildings and tbe grime on the wall. Even Piccadilly looks dismal and depressing. The bright cream paint of 1913 and 1914 has become a dirty brown and dark red lines of relief on tbe buildings arc dusty with age and bombardment. There was neither white lead, linseed oil, nor turpentine available for the manufacture of paint dur. ing the long period of hostilities. So that for even those buildings which enjoyed the luxury of a new coat ruhstitutes last barely one. There is still some difficulty in getting paint, but the are coming along, and the work of rc-dccoration is gradually being resumed. Tho price however, is very high. Before the war the average cost of giving n building tbe ordinery tbre c or four coats of new paint was a shilling a square yard. To-day it is 2/6 or 3s.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1919, Page 1
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176THE PRICE OF PAINT. Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1919, Page 1
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