A firm in Singapore has put on the market a rubber compound which, when softened by heat and spread on a board, will, like birdlime, snare any unwary bird, beast, or insect that crosses it. Iron is under examination as a material for the construction of houses. A Rotherham firm has sumbitted proposals to the Ministry of Health for building semidetached houses of cast-iron plates at a cost of £550 a pair.
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Southland Times, Issue 19434, 24 December 1924, Page 6
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