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Progress, Volume XII, Issue 10, 1 June 1917, Page 996

TAUMARUNUI. Samples of three-ply board manufactured at Taumarunui, have been on exhibition in London lately at the offices of the Board of Trade’s Department of Commercial Intelligence. The woods used are rimu, inatai, and white pine, and the quality of the work has drawn favourable comment from British users of this material. The United States and Japan are large exporters of three-ply board, which is in demand in the furniture and building trades. The material is produced by cementing together three very thin sheets of wood with the grain of the centre sheet running crossways. WANG AN UI. (Correction). In our last issue (page 9(»7) dealing with the Wanganui Art Gallery we stated:—“The system of lighting adopted for the building is new for this part of the world. The galleries will be arranged face to face, with a corridor having a solid ceiling between, the light being admitted in the side of the ceiling vault above, and directed upon the picture wall, while the spectator remains in comparative darkness.” We omitted to mention that the lighting is in accordance with a system which is the invention of Mr. S. Hurst Seager, F.R.1.8.A., of Christchurch, who laid it down in the conditions that this method of lighting w 7 as to be adopted by competitors. When finished this gallery will be the first to be erected on the principles laid down by the inventor. Mr. Seager, it will be remembered as the assessor in this competition, and his method of Art Gallery Lighting was printed in the Journal of the R.1.8.A., Vol. xx., No. 2, in 1912. WELLINGTON. A new 7 churchthe Cambridge Terrace Congregational—was opened last month. The building which was designed by Mr. Wm. Fielding, and built by Messrs Davison and Roberts, cost £5,700. and the land £1,784. It is situated on the corner of Lome Street and Cambridge Terrace. Full particulars and illustrations will be published in our next issue. Plans have been prepared for the erection of a Masonic Hall for Lodge Whetu Kairanga, E.C., at Seatoun. The site of the new hall is exactly opposite the tramway terminus in Dundas Street, backing on to the Seatoun Bowling Club. The building, which will be erected in wood with a tiled roof, will consist of a spacious hall, ante-rooms, dressingrooms, and a kitchen, and will be located 40 ft. back from the street, so as to provide for a garden approach. The tender of Messrs Fletcher Bros, of Dunedin has been accepted for the erection of the New Zealand Farmers’ Institute in Wellington. The building will occupy the site at the corner of Featherston and Ballance Streets formerly used as a coal depot by Messrs Thompson Bros, and Co. *