SCRIM IN BUILDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 8

SCRIM IN BUILDINGS.

"APPROVED MATERIAL." INCLUDES HALF-INCH LINING BOARDS. When the City Council passed a bylaw prohibiting the use of scrim in houses, the Auckland Sawmillers and Woodware Manufacturers* Association wrote submitting that the City Council should reconsider the '■somewhat hasty and drastic" prohibition of the use of l>oards and scrim first, because no really satisfactory substitute had been fully proved, and in any case merchants should have been given at least six months* notice in order that they could clear stocks. The Director of Forestry also wrote advising that the Director-General of Health stated that scrim and paper if properly used were not unhealthy, and that the dust therefrom was less dangerour than street dust, and as a considerable quantity of rough lining was used with scrim and paper its prohibition would tend to raise the price of other grades of timber used in house construction. Last week a deputation waited upon the Works Committee of the council and the committee recommended last evening that until further notice the term "approved material" shall include half-inch close board lining.