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The Building and Enyineering Contractors' Reoorrf 



(weekly) . 

 Contractor Reporter (weekly). 



The Local Govertiment Journal of Australasia (weekly). 

 The Mining Standard (weekly). 

 'The Mining and Engineering Journal (monthly). 

 The Royal Victorian Institute of Architects, Journal of 

 Proceeddngs (bi-monthly). 

 The SaloJi (bi-monthly). 

 The West Australian Building, Engineering, and Minings 



Journal (monthly). 



Aa well as Journals of Proceedings of Engineering Associations, 

 and Institutes. 



Also weekly articles in the dailies specially devoted to the- 

 subjects. 



Building Materials. 



One would like to say something as regards the limitless store- 

 nature has given us in Australia of suitable building materials, 

 out of which the engineer can weld the strongest of structures, 

 and the architect evolve the most graceful and lasting of designs : — 



Granites and the harder varieties of freestone in Victoria, 

 marbles in endless variety in South Australia and New South 

 Wales, trachyte and freestones in New South Wales, Queensland, 

 and Western Australia, Portland cement and steel and iron, suit- 

 able earths for brickmaking, majolica and encaustic ware, slates,, 

 and most other materials essential to our work. • 



The supply of timber is likely to become our one exception, 

 owing to the general supineuess of the State Governments in not 

 sufficiently conserving existing forests and encouraging new ones, 

 and to the indiscriminate destruction by the settler. The jarrah 

 and karri areas of Western Australia, the hardwoods of Gipps- 

 land and the eastern coastal range, the pines of Tasmania, and- 

 the softwoods and cedars of Queensland are yearly becoming more 

 and more limited in supply; and the time is appreciably near when 

 importation also from a world's diminishing supply will be the 

 source of supply, or until some universal substitute has been 

 evolved . 



On the other hand, we are practically self-contained as regards 

 the artificers required to carry out our designs, the construction 

 of complicated and elaborately-finished engines and machinery. 

 Wrought artistic metal work, stained glass, wood and stone carving, 

 electric and gas light fittings, brasswork, and art pottery are 

 available for working out the most elaborate designs of the en- 

 gineer and the architect. 



