BUILDING MATERIAL.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, — I am surprised at seeing a majority of timber buildings in Lawrence. Brickmaking is not ditlicult. Lawrence people make clothes, loaves of bread and boots. These articles too are locally made of the best material. Jlools are made of leather, not of linen or cotton ; bread is made of wheat ilour, not usually of hoive oal s ; and clothes are made up with cotton and silk thread, not with threads of straw. Houses, however, arc made of wood. Lawrence hoxtses usually consist of only one etorey, and frequently of only three rooms. Who is afraid to make bricks in the town ? Who is to blame ? Do the public rcfuso to buy them ? Docs any suitable maker refuse to make them? Does the Town Council discourage them ? Ah, sir, there is, I fear, a trade union against bricks, for I see that the proposed Town Hall is actually to be of wood, at a cobt of one of the three digits with three noughts added. I now see where the shoe pinches. — I am, &c, Impartial.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 310, 6 December 1873, Page 3
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181BUILDING MATERIAL. Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 310, 6 December 1873, Page 3
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