3 AUGUST 1918, Page 17

We have received a highly interesting Report for 1918 from

the Rhodesia Munitions and Resources Committee, formed in 1915 at the request of the Ministry of Munitions to take stock of the country's resources and to see how they could be developed. A special section is devoted to pied de term buildings ; the Spectator's article on the subject is reproduced at length, and it is stated that the method has been adopted with much success at-the Jesuit Mission at Empandeni, and, in a modified form, at the Globe and Phoenix Mine. "There would appear," says Mr. John Hynd, " to be a large field for build- ings of this type in Rhodesia," where ordinary building materials are very costly, and where thick walls are needed to keep out the heat in summer.