SHAVINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 2

SHAVINGS

WINTER COLOUR SCHEMES, A room used mostly in winter should have warmer, darker colours than a living room in a summer home. A child’s room should above all, be cheerful and gay, which means light clear tones, wliereas a man’s study might be dark and rich, with browns, hennas, gold, and deep tones of bluish green without depressing his stronger personality. The lighting of a room has a great deal to do with its effect, and this depends in the daytime upon the windows and exposure, and at night upon tho lamps. * * * * LEAGUE OF NATIONS PALACE. The first contract to come to Great i Britain in concnctiou with the new £2,000.000 headquarters of the League of Nations in Genova, the Palais des Nations, has boon secured by Boneo Ltd., manufacturers of office appliances ( says tho ‘Daily Mail’). This) contract is for the “ book stack ” of the library, which means all the shelves and fittings. It will amount to between £IO,OOO and £50,000. Mr J. G. Sellars, manager of tho firm, said ; “ The carrying out of the contract will require the use of between 400 and 500 tons of llritish steel. The library will have ten floors, with a total of thirtyfive miles of shelves. It will be capable of holding 1,000,000 books. Wo expect to have the work finished by the end of the year. The British Empire is finding about one-fifth of the money for the building.” • * * • ANOTHER LONDON CINEMA. On a site in North London, which report says is being kept a close secret, but which rumour places as well within a mile of Camden Town Tube Station, it is proposed to erect a cinema of the most modern type, to hold 3.500 people, a boxing arena and dance hall with accommodation for 2.500, a tea room for 1,000. and a sub-ground car park to take 350 cars. The building is estimated to cost £300,000, and, providing entertainment for over 7,000 under one roof, seems to bo the most ambitions undertaking of this kind that has yet been projected in London.— 1 Tho Architect- and Building News.’ ELECTRIC CLOCKS. People generally may not be aware that where A.C. supply mains are available, with controlled frequency alternation (as in the grid system), it is pos-

sible to instill electrically operated clocks which are actuated and exactly controlled by the periodicity of current. These clocks, of good appearance, can be obtained for as little as £2 15s. and merely need to be connected by plugging into existing sockets or lampholders, They need no winding or regulating. and, as long as the current does not fail, automatically show correct time. Tf existing connections are used, the onlv special care needed is that they should not be liable to be switched off. There is also an American model made which will continue operating for eleven hours after Waipori has failed. NEW ZEALAND WHITE PINE. Two good shipments of -white pine were being loaded last week at the Greymouth wharf. The Kartigi was taking 850,QU0 superficial feet to Melbourne and Adelaide, and this, with 170,000 feet loaded at Bluff, brought her cargo to ovep one million feet. Ihe Kalingo was duo over the week-end to place 1,100,000 feet of timber for Sydney (states the Greymouth ‘Star’). The timber trade is fairly steady, and it is expected that there will be sufficient orders from Australia to warrant loadings of about two million feet each month. Two further timber boats are expected about the middle of June, one to load for Melbourne, and the other i for Svdney and Newcastle. The mouths of May. June, and July are regarded as tho slack months in the trade. Merchants state that this season’s trade has been up to the average of past years. The Now Zealand business, however, is apparently more at a standstill than ever, there being practically no building operations in the country. * * * * LONDON'S TUBE RAILWAY. Chancery lane station, on the Central London tube railway, is to be rebuilt. The lift accommodation here has for some time past been inadequate to deal with the rush-hour traffic, but tbo railway company has been unable to secure adjoining property which would permit escalators to be installed. Under the rebuilding scheme, to bo begun immediately, a new station will be constructed under the roadway of Holborn at tbo junction with Gray’s Inn road, about 100yds oast of the present building, and it will have four entrances, two at the corner of Gray’s Inn road and two on the opposite side of Holborn. The estimated cost is £230,000, says an English journal. BERNARD SHAW’S PROTEST. Mr Bernard Shaw has won the battle of the Wheathampstead refuse dump. As tho result of representations by St. Albans Rural Council, the Islington Borough Council has agreed to make some changes in the system of working there (says the London ‘ Daily Telegraph

The Islington Council’s dump is near Mr Shaw’s Hertfordshire home in Ayot, St. Lawrence. Since_ 1922 ho has protested against conditions at the dump in characteristic letters to St. Albans Rural Council, in wiose area the dump is situated. In one letter Mr Shaw compared the dump to tho fumes of the island volcano of Stromboli, “ which is believed by the islanders tc communicate directly with hell, and to be, in fact, one of the chimneys of that establishment.” Mr Shaw, indeed, stated that to “ explain the gravity of ihe nuisance ” was bevond his literary: powers. He therefore quoted the Bock of Exodus; “ Behold. 1 /will send svarms of flies upon thee.”' This might have served Pharaoh right, but what had they in Hertfordshire done to ; deserve this plague? was his comment DISPLACING ELECTRICITY. A rather peculiar pinto of the depression was ventilated at the last meeting of the Waitehata Electric Power Board. It was revealed that some of the country setters were going back to the stove and the tea-tree wood block, and some were eien said to be falling back on the cande as a means of illumination. j Tho Secretary (Mr A. Uain) said the office was receiving frejuent requests from consumers for tlnj disconnection of their electric water betters or ranges. These requests had beeij averaging six a month, and indicatins were that there would bo more dji-ing the next few months. The boarj was allowing every latitude, and wlpre the consumer was compelled to fee other means of cooking it was not dfconnecting the range, but was transferihg tho account to the ordinary scale oj charges. The range was left connectd so that the consumer might use it ft any time if he so wished. j Mr Main assured theboard that the disconnections were mefly a symptom of the present state of lepression, and would not be permanenj

Should one of your bofmg tiles or slates break or refuse j> stay in position, do not discard it. jut drill it and fasten it up again. Tit device should be handy in districts inwhich tiles are not readily available. I you have not a suitable drill an ordisry nail makes a useful substitute. Kitten it a little near the point by bannering, cut off the head with a file, jid you have a diamond-pointed drill oich will fit in the chuck of a hand (ill or a brace. Start the hole by chip mg the surface slightly with a nail or | punch to prevent ithc drill from 1 14 wandering.” Keep it wot, and be suj to drill on an even surface without (° much pressure or tho material |B crack. The drill may be used on nything similar to terra-cotta.—Melbothc ‘ Argus.’-