NEW PLYMOUTH BUILDING FIRMS AND PATEA.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 150, 16 September 1876, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH BUILDING FIRMS AND PATEA.

(to the editor of the patea mail.) Sir —Will you kindly allow mo spaco in your valuable paper for a few words, anent an extract from the Budget, and your remarks thereon, which appeared in your last issue. You must have observed -that the extract, leaves one somewhat benighted 'as to the style, quality, and finish of the house referred to, or in what degree of comfort it is to be left in. It simply states its superficial area, or, I presume, its size at the base, leaving one to wonder and conjecture how far tins “ cheap four-roomed house, With four-foot passage,” may extend upwards ; but let us be charitable enough to suppose it be of the average height of New Plymouth fourroomed dwellings—that is, I think, 7 feet. As their walls range from 5 feet to 8 feet, they do not require very high chininics, and as the iron for the roof is to be supplied to the contractor, it seems to me just possible that it may not be a very cheap house after all. Now, Sir, I fear your remarks on this house may deter people from buying land at the forthcoming sale, or even prevent timid young from getting married, in the face of the prospect of having cither to pay some enormous amount tor a house, or else endure the horrors of wliarc until such-time as “ a few of the Now Plymouth building firms can be induced to take up their residence in this part of the world.” To such 1 would say, have no such fears, for there are plenty of men on this side of Stony llivcr or County.boundary, quite up to the standard of any of the “firms” in the present capital, for operating on a mansion 2Gft x 24I't, and I doubt not but some of them, if not most, in the building trade here, would undertake to supply, for the same price, a house in accordance with the specifications as supplied by the Budget. At any rate, I, for one, will'do so so,'on condition that duo allowance bo made for carting or conveyance to positions and places at a distance —terms being, as the auctioneers sometimes say, “ cash on the fall of the hammer,” in other words, when finished. —I am, &c., WILLIAM AITCIISON. Patea, Sept. 15, 187 G.