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STEEL HOUSES.

BUILDING, TRADE CRITICS' VIEWS.

The Brst report, issued last month, by the Technical Committee appointed b the National Housing and Town Plan ning Council to consider the housing question from various aspects deals

with steel houses... houses constructed of wood frames covered with steel plates

over which

The chairman of

Elgood, Nstions!

of the and Town Planning presides is composed of 100 ts, surveyors, building trade em-1 uthorities, and housing reformers.

operative members of local

and

The committee state that having con- sidered the claim that steel sheets one eighth or three-sixteenths of an inch thick, painted once on the inside when first fixed and painted externally at fre. quent intervals afterwards, will last for forty years, they are not convinced that this claim can be sustained.

VALER OF CONCRETE.

The committee regard the proposal to use wood pulp linings for the internal | faces of the walls of houses as open to the objection that it may be a source of danger to health. The report atys:

The risk of

of the walls thus constructed becoming verminous is known to every Experienced administrator; as is also almost impossible task of successful cleansing the surfaces or the spaces be bind the linings.

It is obvious that walls constracted in accordance with the methods proposed for the building of the Weir type of house will be more readily affected by rapid changes in

in the temperature than thicker or solid walks. "' Discussing al

alternative methods of con struction the committee say that they are of opinion that under the climatic conditions existing to Great Britain brick and stone are by far the best materials for the construction of houses. The committee think that the use of granular concrete placuti or poured in

ailu between shuttera worthy of widespread experiment,

method

The report urges the Government to set up a Departmental Committee to con- sider the proper regional distribution of the houses to be built under the national housing policy.

IRON HOUSE.

BUILT SIXTY YEARS AGO AND STILL OCCUPIED.

Walsall Housing Co

Committee were asked

by the town council recently to reconsider & decision not to

houses, Councillor Thement with steel!

Labour mem-46

ber and ex-mayor, saying it was no use being prejudiced nod that all means possible should be used to alleviate the bousing shortage. Alderman Somerfeld mid he knew of an iron house, erected 60 years ago in Walsall, which was still occupied by a family.

FIVE HOUSES IN 14 DAYS.

Fire concrete houses have been built in a fortnight by anakilled labour for £400 on the outskirts of Trafford Park, Manchester. The method of construction has been approved by the Ministry of Health. On the ground floor are living room, parlour, bedroom, scullery, larder. coalplace, and lavatory; upstairs two bed- roomy and bathy.com,

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HONGKONG SHARE MARKET. CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

MARCH 12TH, 1925. Hongkong and Shanghai

Babka

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Hongkong Fire Insurance.. $710 b. Union Insurances ......... ..265 1... Douglas Steamships.......$5.5 b E.K., C. & Steamboats...3351 b. "Star** Ferrine .... Waterboats **Shell

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Kowloon Whares... Whampoa Docket... Shanghai Docks*** HE&S Hotels

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COMPANY REPORT.

BENGUET CONSOLIDATED MINING CO.

Mesars, Moxon & Taylor inform us that the Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. have informed them of their decision to pay a quarterly, dividend of 15. centavos, on the 31st of this month..

February was pesos 140,000,, " *

The production of bullion for January-

CINEMA NOTES,

· STAR THEATRE,

Commercial fish ponds in Nanking number about 150. The blue fish," or tsing yu, and lien tai yu are regarded as domesticated fish," and bream, helico Lenus, and hypophthalmichthys moritriz, wild fuh" These two main classes are never allow to mix in cine pond, as the "wild" fish feed upon the domes ticated fish. Fish oe or spawn is ob- the Fox picture which comes to the Star Six Cylinder Love is the title of tained from Hwangtientang by.fishermen Theatre this evening us the feature at in the Spring Roe is a small as a rice traction for the week-end. grain. It is kept in's tank and fed with better title would have been How to be Possibly 'a mixture of say best, four and water. Happy Though Married, for the pic After a month or so it grows to a length ture deals playfully with the tribulations of shove two inches, and is then sold to of a young couple who find that wedded the pood keepera. In the ponds, the fish, life is not without its trial. when very young, are fed with bran, and

later, with green gras During August

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

loses

or, feptember, when the fish grow to the Richard Barthelmess fights his first lengur of one chih or more, they are said screen duel with swords--and on the market. Young" domesticated valiantly-in the widely heralded pro Gar and "wild" fish cannot be distinduction, The Bright Shawl," adapted guished until they reach a size of about from Joseph Hergesheimer's powerful | four inches.

story de ing with Spanish oppression in Cabe. Tais fight is described as one of The formal participation of the which will begin an engagement at the the most gripping features of the picture, United States in the proceeds of the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. Barthelmesa Dawes schemes has indisputably added an is seen in the role of Charles Abbotti a immense moral weight to, the authority young American, who becomes interested on which that scheme stands.-Mr. Ohur-in the island's cause and throws in his chill...

lot with the Cuban rebels.

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