Here and There.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 1 March 1921, Page 157

Here and There.

Quite a controversy appears to have arisen over the question as to whether the wood borer will attack pig lead. In Wellington recently a city plumber pointed to a lead gutter which, he asserted, had been pierced by the borer. Another plumber attributed the tiny holes to the corrosive action of iron nails, but it is felt that the irregularity of the holes is against that theory. A third party believes that the wood borer will attack lead. Recently, he states, he was doing some repair work, and in finishing off a job near a sink he placed a layer of white lead beneath a sheet of glass. The thickness of the white lead was threequarters of an inch, but the borer came right through the lead. Of course, the glass was too much for the pest. This informant >s inclined to the belief that if the wood borer will go through white lead it will go through pig lead. * * *

It is reported (says the Wanganui “Chronicle”) that the wholesale price of building timber is likely to recede early next month. This is no doubt due to a general slackening in the demand, as there is not the same difficulty at present in getting orders filled as was the case a few months ago. * * *

The raising of a loan of £250,000, bearing interest at 52 per cent., by the Napier Harbour Board for the construction of harbour works is authorised in the “Gazette.” The Lyttelton Harbour Board is authorised to borrow £150,000 for harbour works at the same rate of interest. The Timaru Harbour Board has permission to raise £9,000 for the erection of workers’ dwellings. * * *

It has been decided by the Auckland University College to agree to the suggestion that the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects should confer with the Council, with a view to deciding by what means the branch might assist in the development of the School of Architecture. Tne conference was fixed for April nth, at 4 p.m.