HANDYMAN’S GUIDE
“Instead of a silver spoon, every second New Zealander seems to have been bom with a long-handled shovel in his mouth,” says the editor of a new magazine “How” in his editorial for the first edition.
In spite of the title, the magazine is not one for expatriate Red Indians but for home handymen. The editor explains that its purpose is to give advice on home improvements in terms of New Zealand materials, methods, regulations and conditions.
In the first issue of the bimonthly publication, home owners are told how to build boulder walls, repair foundations, landscape hillside sections, mix concrete, fix leaky taps, mend broken windows, and repair squeaky floors. Experts also give advice on choosing a section and the possibilities of extending existing houses.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31627, 13 March 1968, Page 12
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