CORRUGATED IRON AS A BUILDING • MATERIAL . [To the Editor
of the SPECTATOR.]
remember, from personal experience in South Africa nearly thirty years ago, with what relief the eye rested on the small towns of the Transvaal after having been wearied by the monotony of the corrugated iron of Natal. Yet the Construction was similar in all respects, the difference being that the Boers, with the comfortable traditions of Holland behind them, had coated their iron roofs with red paint.
In a field near Blackrock, Co. Dublin, a well-known firm of corrugated-iron manufacturers exhibited for many years various types of buildings that could be constructed with their material. I imagine that the same enterprising firm Would be ready to carry out an experiment such as you suggest. It should be a simple matter to erect temporarily, in some central position, two cottages of similar construction, leaving one in the galvanized state with which we are too familiar, while of the other the walls might be painted in cool °11ve-g,reen and the roof in red of a subdued tone that should harmonize as nearly as possible with that of a weathered roof- tile. The result would probably go far towards meeting your OW11 and your correspondent's justifiable objection to the present inartistic use of this unsightly but useful building material.—I am, Sir, &c., - F. J. GRIMBLY, Che'deau Belmont, Montreux, Switzerland,
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