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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 December 1923, Page 11

COROMANDEL GRANITE. Two scow loads of this well known granite arrived recently from Mr. R. i R. Hunt's extensive quarries at Moehau ' (sleeping wind) —Paritu Point. Coro-h mandel Peninsula. | This is a very important event for , architects and builders, as there is npw j a good prospect of an abundant supply of this well-known granite being got j cheaply for the market for the building I trade, which has been almost entirely neglected because of its scarcity and i ridiculously high price, which had risen | to 17/(5 per cubic foot, which price the j opening of Mr. Hunt's quarries will pull i down to a price to enable the architects to stipulate for it, and the builders to use it. One enthusiastic, user of the stone de-

Clares it to be the best, soundest, monu- I mental and building granite yet discovered in the Dominion. I The first two scow loads were sold to | Mr. John Bouskill, the well-known monu- : mental mason, who has been working up ] Coromandel granite for well over twenty- years.— (Ad). | |

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