Nu-Tex—A New Paint For

Tropical Buildings

NU-TEX, something entirely new in the paint world, is now being marketed in the South Seas. Between high priced cement paints, requiring special primers, and water paints, which are not very satisfactory, there is a wide gap.

Nu-tex steps into this breach by providing a paint which binds directly with cement and avoids the need for primers.

Nu-tex provides a hard, flat washable surface and dries rapidly, enabling a sequence of coats to be applied the same day. It adheres strongly to plaster, wood, iron, and fibre board, making it alternately useful either as a flat finish or an adhesive undercoat for other types of paint.

Lacquer may be painted over Nu-tex without lift ing it.

For ceilings and walls Nu-tex can be applied directly to any surface and a second coat can be applied within half an hour. Scrubbing with soap and water has no effect on it. For industrial use it is ideal as it is made in a special line for all industrial work. It is a rapid drying adhesive primer for metal castings to be finished with either paint, enamel, or lacquers. It is equally service able for cement work and plaster casts, and will adhere to galvanized iron where other compositions frequently fail.

Nu-tex is a new line manufactured by the Sterl ing Varmsh Co., Alexandria, N.S.W.*** Rev, A. H. Cropp, accompanied by his wife 'and family, departed from Sydney for Teopasino, Bougainville Island, in the Kieta District, New Guinea, by the Malaita on December 12. He is a worker for the Methodist Church of New Zealand.