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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 8

Johnsonvillc residents are to have a public meeting, at which Jlr. J S. Baxter, of Invercargill, will give tile truth regarding No-License in Invercargill. Mr. Baxter, who lias been n prominent No-Licenso speaker for a number of years, will have some interesting facts to tell, especially on the present state of trado in the Southern town under. No-License.

and the work of installing tho fittings nearly so. ' i

The main entrance is by a hall, 10ft. wide, which gives access to a transverse corridor, and, at one end of tho corridor, a stair-way leading to the upper floor. Looking down tho corridor from tho stair-way there are, on tho right, tho assistant-master s room, the hall, tho headmaster s room, and the library; on the left aro the doors leading to tho assembly hall and class-rooms, The assembly hall is a spacious room 57ft. long, by 30ft. wide, the walls of which run right up towards the roof —a fraction over 31ft. high. At one end is a platform; the hall should bo a very popular one for assembly and social purposes. A gallery haltway up gives access to tlireo of tho classrooms on tho upper floor. Tho class-rooms adjoining are each 24ft. square, and are comfortable and well-lighted apartments. On tho upper floor aro four class-rooms, a physical science room and a "balance" room. The latter is not a gymnasium, but an apartment for tho scientific balances. The whole building is heated by the hot-water system. It is not intended to uso the new annexe until after the Christmas vacation, when an additional number of "proficiency" boys from tho primary schools will bo ready to enter. Meanwhile, definite settlement of. the question regarding tho accommodation for tho "proficiency" girls, still remains in abeyance. A compromise is bomg effected by the disestablishment of tho secondary department at tho Terrace District High School, and the accommodation of tho girls at present there at tho Nowtown District High School.

troduced is—"But will not water under pressure percolate through 3ft. of concrete?" Let the "Engineering Record" answer the question. ,It says:— r . "Nothing is more insistently visible than a stain of rust. Tho presence of iron oxide in a minuto degree cannot be concealed. We have now built dams having an aggregate surface exposed to the water of somewhere about 200,000 square feet. Every foot of the under side of our decks and aprons is in plain sight. Our assertion is that there is not a singlo dam in which there is tho slightest evidence of a rust stain—and if no stain, no rust. Every one knows that if concrete is porous at all its porosity is at a maximum when green. As it hardens, the pores continue to fill by crystallisation, and possibly on tho surface by sedimentation. If thero is any rust it will be at onco or not at all, as concrcto gets denser and harder with every day of age. It will not do to assert, therefore, that although rust has not yet appeared it may appear ten or a hundred years hence. Any experience in the naturo and beliaviour of concrete negatives this as a possibility."