“One thin?: to prevent which a bylaw is urgently needed,” said a Napier land agent, “is the erection of houses with green timber.”' As an example he onoted the case cf a house erected on the Marine Parade with timber so sappy that moisture spurted from the wood when nails were being driven, while now the planks had shrunk so that there were places almost big enough to admit a finger. Yet that house was sold, on erection, for £llOO. Progandra cures corns cuickly; 1/6. — Advt.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 June 1924, Page 6
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