MATERIAL FOR HOUSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18742, 23 June 1924, Page 7

MATERIAL FOR HOUSES.

VIEWS of CONFERENCE. •ROUGH LINING CONDEMNED. While the object:of the report on construction ■of dwellings submitted vby the Forestry Department ;to the Timber Conference in Wellington last week, was the conservation of i resources, it was significant ;,: at Friday's sitting . that the committee's ; recommendations were largely for lighter constructions lin several instances. The thickness of weatherboards, was "'■: reduced ■% by the conference from the ;fin. recommended by the Forestry 'Department [to |in.; -. , ' ; . Mr". '? Paterson: . You will fa* putting on brown; paper-next. '■y. ; ?-/\ : ¥\Z ; " ;■

Mr...' Entrican ', strongly opposed the deletion 'of .a . clause stipulating £ supporting wooden..'• sheathing ; behind asbestos sheeting j exterior surfaces. Houses, -he ;said; were, being constructed . in; Wellington of which''the outside walls consisted \ merely of such asbestos sheeting. - • - The ' Chairman, ■ Mr. W. M. Page: I know-, men who would ".not ;put' a good motor-car-in ' a garage with only: abestos walls. ' Asbestos walls alone do not give much comfort in a howling southerly. ■;■;>;'■ The >: use of rough wooden , lining for walls; and ceilings was. excluded by ; the conference, the reasons being that timber would jbe conserved, fire! risks eliminated, and /death;' by fire : and diseases would be minimised. The recommendation «.' as finally ; passed; : : was ?• that "the : inside of all external, walls, ceilings, and partition stud > walla shall ;be lined with ilath ;'. and plaster, i plaster board, : fibrous: - plaster, asbestos' sheet, or'timber panelling,' halfinch rough lining being excluded.'-