LATH AND PLASTER FOR BUILDING
JUDGE QUOTES OWN HOUSE (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. That lath and plaster building in Wellington -had been a failure, was affirmed by a witness with 25 years’ experience, in a building-construction case heard in the Supreme Court today. “If you could see one house which was so built, and which was sound, would it shake your belief?” asked Air. A. D. Brodie. Witness (Christopher Pinnock): I wish I could. “I built a house in Auckland some time ago,” said Mr. Justice Reed. “It was of lath and plaster. That house changed hands a little while back, and it was as sound as the day on which it was built.”
Witness: That may be so in Auckland, or in Christchurch, but it is not so in Wellington. Here, tlae lime is not suitable and the mixing is not done well. Also it is dangerous. The Public Works Department does not like it. You have to put the plaster on an inch or an inch and a-quarter thick, and on ceilings it may fall. To say that plaster of Paris was suitable for outside works was ridiculous, added witness later. The City Council had paid him £1,500 to renovate the Town Hall. This had been done with cement. The original work in plaster of Paris resulted in pieces weighing half a hundredweight falling in the tower.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 9
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