USE OF SCRIM

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 4

USE OF SCRIM

NQT FAVOUREP ON CEILItfG.S.

The abolition of the use of scrim on ceilings. is being advocated by employers and employees alike in the painting and paperhanging trade. In bringing the matter before the notice of the Minister of 'Labour (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) last night, Mr. P. Cornwell, secretary of tho fainter?' Federation, referred to the dust,and filth,- harbouring germs and vermin, which accumulated in ceilings in the course of years, and showed how the paperhanger was affected when he had to tear down the old paper and scrim. He pointed out that there were several materials which djd away with the necessity for scrim— substitutes such as beaver board, panelling, etc.^-which he did not think would add to the cost of building. Mr. Cornwell said that the federation was pot advocating tile.prohibition of the use of scrim on walls, believing that it would deprive the workers of a lot of cmulovmenit. • ■ .

The Director of Public Hygiene (Dr. M'Kibbin) said that if the Minister was impressed with the necessity •of doing away with sprim on ceilings, the Health Department could approach tl}o Jocal government authorities throughout the Dominion, urging them to provide accordingly in their bylaws. The Minister said he would isquire into the matter. Scrim was used so persistently that he desired to know more about th e question before acting. If it was a source"pf danger to* paperhangers through their inlialing germs, the Health Department would have to do something. The public had to be considered, for the cost of building houses had already been almost doubled.