STATE BANKS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1985, 16 February 1914, Page 2

STATE BANKS

-- - ■'■♦ ———* NEW SOUTH WALES'S EXPERI- . . .MEXT. '■• ; ■ The'memhers of the Victorian Royal Commission appointed to inrtuire into; the inaiuifacturc of bi'icliS and the cost - to the K-onjume-rs paid n visit to Sydney" kst wed;, Jookcrt oves , tho.State liriclc works, and took a good denl of evidence. Mr. Sydney Hiitton, tho manager of tho State brick works, told the cnnimissioH that, although during the last fiiuuic-in]-' year there liad.bepn a loss of I'IGOO, the , price charged bsiiis* 30s. por thousn-wl, ■ the GevennnMit Imd sftT«l between , £7000 and £8000,' representing the price paid for the Stato-mado bricks and that-" wliiclrtfould have been , paid to private BJa-nttfaeiurers. It was.shown that there ha-d hern a great demand,for Sta'.e-m.ide hrioks outside, but it was only the su-r- J plus, after tho Qovcrnment Departments had all they 'wanted, that were sold. It was not the desire to make a profit at these works, but- to sj-ive- the Government the opportunity to. construct its owii works as cheaply as possible. .At the.same tU»e, it was acknowledgcd tlra.t it .'was only a State cojieern that could ■ lio run on sueli lines. ■ Tho private brickivofks had not, it was asserted, suffered any loss through the es. iablishriicnt of the Gdvefiun.ent works, ft- fact that .was dttp to the rapidity with which buildings were being put up, arid tho increasing demand for'bricks.