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Messrs Collins and West are buoy with the plans and specifications for the new nurses' home. They hope to have them ready in about a month's time. Christchurch painters have been badly treated by the weather of late, bwt, with prospects of more settled conditions, several painting jobs should b<? available in the very near future.

The building sky-line in Cathedral square is undergoing a gradual change. The work of adding another storey to the A.M.P. Building, opposite the ReRtuit Theatro, is going ahead rapidly, Messrs P. Graham and Sons being the contractors.

The new season's wallpapers are now being received by the local merchants, and what are to hand shqw a distinct change of pattern. Most of them represent futuristic designs, and panel and drop friezes are still very popular. The Canadian papers are further advanced in design tnan the British.

The Main Roads Board of New South Wales recently issued instructions that it would not approve of the erection of kerbside petrol pumps Jn fjont of buildings which had no pumps already installed on the kerblino. Toe Board desired that drive-in stations should gradually replace garnges with kerbside petrol pumps.

A new fashion has arisen in Paris. states a writer in an overseas journal t-the vo«uo for wall panel? in engraved glass. A typical example of this artistic decorative material shows an underwater scene delicately ongraved on the glass. The decorative panel, set in an iron frame, glows with intense luminosity, giving n vivid live appearance to an otherwise plain or fabric-coloured surface.

The Continental architects are introducing very largo windows in some of their domestic and public buildings The window framework is in reinforced concrete, with rannv divisions, as if to form relief from the severely plnin walls. Th-?se windows can be very beautiful, and in some measure echo the pierced and glazed lattices. When filled for churches with small coloured glass design*—not necessarily Biblical subjects or stories, but pure design tinding more directly towards pure decoration-- they form the modern expression of some of the best of the old tenahiJlf??, A huge globe, constructed of copper, covered with gold leaf, and inset with 163 five-inch lenses, will top a 45foot steel nipe on the roof of the new Scottish Rite Temple at McAleeter, Oklahoma, America, 250 feet above the citv streets. It is five feet in diameter and weighs about 500 pounds. A sfriwi of light* nn thn inside, shining through the different-coloured lenses produce no glare, and will be seen for many miles, serving both as on attractive decoration, and as a cruide for neroplfine*.