Dixon’s White

Progress, Volume IX, Issue 12, 1 August 1914, Page 1207

Dixon’s White

(Published by Arrangement) Most users of white lead are agreed that it should be displaced by a non-poisonous pigment as soon as a satisfactory article has been found, and it behoves every user of white lead to ask himself the question. Is it possible to displace white lead by a satisfactory non-poisonous pigment? The makers of “Dixon’s White” say that it is not only possible, but that their “Dixon’s White” is actually doing it. Since “Dixon’s White” was introduced into Australasia about two years ago, it has made rapid progress. In Australia very large quantities have been used and the various Government tests have proved satisfactory, and many excellent testimonials from private users have been sent to the makers in response to their Home Office Commission Inquiry. Large quantities have also been distributed in this Dominion, and the N.Z. representatives advertised in this issue offer their services to all who are interested in this question, whether actual users, suppliers, or private persons interested in the health of the community. Scientific men are engaged in solving the question as to whether paint made on a White Lead basis does or does not give off poisonous emanations after it has been applied, and so long as there is any possibility of it being true, it is surely wiser to use a non-poisonous paint. “Dixon’s White” has had over eight years’ trial on the English market, and the fact that it is being largely used by many of the very best and well known engineering and ship-building firms, contractors and others, is sufficient guarantee of its superiority. A line to the New Zealand agents will afford readers a full opportunity of obtaining samples and testing “Dixon’s White” and proving for themselves its many advantages over White Lead.

A story about some “model” cottages which are being built in a Lancashire town, told by the “Manchester Guardian,” is not without its lesson for some of our housing reformers and “garden-city” enthusiasts. The cottages are of the doll-house type, and two working men were ,subjecting them to a critical inspection. “Say Jack,” remarked one, “where they goin’ t ’put furniture “Why,” was the reply, “I ’card as ’ow they’re goin’ to paint it on t’ walls.”

The Small Boy: “Paw, what’s the difference between genius and talent”? Paw (an architect): “Talent gets paid every Friday, my son.”

Architect: “And on these panels you wish, I believe, the double convolute?” Mrs. Nouveaux: “Oh, no, indeed! I said I wanted just a plain wiggle running down each side.”