Building Made Easy

wall-building machine, made in Vic i and recently imported into New ionia, was exciting lively interest in nea while I was there, concrete foundation is laid down in usual way. A thick coating of insu l material (dampcourse) is painted t where the walls are to go. Then, ' the machine, a section nine inches is constructed. The wall is a cavity (two inches cavity, with two inches rete on either side) and it is made ind and cement, in the proportion of 1. By the time the workers (only two needed) have got right around with nine-inch section the part of wall built is hard enough to allow the nine-inch section to be started. It aimed that two men thus can con it the walls of a five-roomed house 3 days. The cost is very low, com -1 with any other method, e photo shows two men (Messrs, ird Griffiths and J. Christie) starting construction of a house in Noumea. ’ were driven to this by the high of all materials there. A bag of ralian cement costs 25/- in Noumea— than half being represented by doring charges in Australia and New

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uncan Thompson, former Too mba (Queensland) and inter onal Rugby League footballer, donated a trophy for competi between Papua and New aea, the winner to be decided on Its of the four inter-Territory and reserve grade games. Two iv former Toowoomba players, t Hart and Frank Naughtin, season played in the Papuan esentative side.