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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 6

"Builder" invites contributions from readers on any matters of interest which they might like to propose. Correspondence on various subjects pertaining to building will also be accepted. Answer to Correspondent. H A.J.W., Ashburton —It is not desirable to add resin to a french polish for the reason that gum and spirit are opposed to one another. The ingredients are shellac, methylated spirits, and gum benzoin. Dissolve the shellac in the spirit and let it stand for a fortnight. Make into a thick paste and add one ounce of gum to half a gallon of polish a day before using. Apply with a rag—not a brush. NOTES. Fires that burn smokily will be less troublesome if a little common salt is strewn on the coal. Aluminium teapots can be cleaned out easily and quickly. Cut up a lemon, put it in the teapot fill with cold water, and let it gradually boil on a gas ring or electric Are. Not a vestige is left of what was once the Evangelical Lutheran Church, familiarly known as the oid German church," at the corner 01 Montreal and Worcester streets. It has now been replaced by a handsome brick and stone building, heavily butressed,' and constructed to stand for many years.

Linen blinds can be cleaned with salt and bathbrick. Take them down, lay them on the table, and brush well. Then rub with the salt and bathbrick mixture. Floorboards which are covered with linoleum sometimes creak owihg to dryness, consequent on lack of washing. Take up the lino and paint the boards liberally with hot linsed oil. A tablespoonful of salt added to a few tablespoonfuls of vinegar will clean out glass bottles with narrow necks. Let it stand for 30 minutes, then shake and rinse well. Aluminium vessels become black if anything of an alkaline nature is used in them. To correct this, place a small piece of lemon in the pan containing the water when steaming vegetables or other food. Use the special soap sold with steel wool for cleaning. To make linoleums or oilcloths, which have become stiff and unmanageable, soft and pliable so that they can be handled without fear of cracking, expose them to the sun for a short while on damp grass or asphalt. To impart a brilliant non-smear polish to a french-polished furniture which is dull, damp a piece of flannelette with eucalyptus r..id rub over the article. Then rub briskly with a piece of velvet. If windows or doors are opened the smell quickly disappears. If there are marks on your linoleum, give them a brisk rubbing with a paste made from fuller's earth and milk. Wash it off and dry the linoleum well. To prevent a recurrence of the trouble, give the linoleum a coat of hard spirit varnish, applied with a flat brush, overnight. It will be fit to walk on in the morning. The linoleum must be quite dry and free from every speck of dust before the spirit is applied. If your brown leather suitcase is stained with grease rub it with a rag dipped in a weak solution of oxalic acid—one small teaspoonful of oxalicacid to one gill of water—or leave a little moistened french chalk on the stain for half an hour. If there are inkstains on the case, mix a little chloride of lime with water to make a paste, cover the stain with it, leave for two hours, then wash off with warm water and dry. BUILDING AND FURNITURE WOODS. LARGER IMPORTS AND CONSUMPTION. For the next month at least (writes a correspondent in "The Times" trade and engineering supplement of May 20) there is no danger of this country being caught short of housing timbers as the result of the embargo on Russian wood, for the Board of Trade returns show a much larger total import last month than in April of the last two years, while for the four months this year 534,781 loads (of 50 cubic feet) arrived, against 434,000 loads for the similar period of last year, and 459,766 loads in Janu-ary-April, 1931. Finland and Poland are helping to augment supplies, and Canadian arrivals have more than doubled those of January-April for the incf fwn vcsrfl. But even with the larger importation this year London dock stocks are comparatively low, while, on the other hand, the deliveries from the docks last month were much more favourable compared with April last ye £ast month's imports of plywood were a little less than those of the general average for the last four months. The total for the latter was 2,477,573 cubic feet, of which Russia supplied 1 607,761 cubic feet. Of course, Soviet plywood is now under the embargo, but there seems to be a sufficiency of imported plywood generally on this market, plus home manufactures, to meet present and early future requirements. In London docks stocks of plywood on May I amounted to 36,238 tons, against only 19,761 tons last year. April deliveries, totalled 4804 tons, against 3976 tons the previous year. THE BUILDING SUBSIDY. By 4 p.m. yesterday the Labour Department at Christchurch had received 274 applications for the Unemployment Board's building subsidy, representing £217,580 worth of work, and a wages cost of £77,466. Of these, 161 applications have been approved, including one for a £40,000 and another for a £9OOO job, and nine applications have been definitely refused. The others are still under consideration. SAVE 10s ON COLD CURE. MAKE A PINT FOR 2s 6d. (QUALIFIED CHEMIST'S RECIPE.) Don't pay high prices for water and sugar! Instead of buying cough and cold remedies ready mixed, buy only tho concentrated medicinal essence, dilute it yourself, and save 10s! A 2s 0d bottle of HEENZO (Hean's Essence) makes a whole pint of excellent mixture, equal to eight ordinary bottles at Is 6d or Is 9d. And the remedy you make at home with HEENZO is unrivalled (or {ill sorts of head and chest colds, sore throat, and influenza. Pleasant to take and safe for all ages—the youngest child can have a dose. Buy HEENZO to-day at your chemist or store. Remember the name—HEENZO. No other will do. —»