"A SCANDAL"
PRICE OF BRICKS
The opinion that the present-day nrice of bricks was too high and that State brick works should be started was expressed by Mr. P. Carr (Government, Auckland West) when he spSke in the Budget debate ,in the House of Representatives last night. Mi Carr said he thoufiht.it time that an inquiry was made into the cost of building materials^ more especially into the cost of bncKS. In Ne\v Zealand there was more plastic cay, fo? brick-making than could possibly, be u-sed in 100 years. In his opinion there was a nice little combine, "seeing to it that we do not get bricks. Theie were brick-works that had been closed d°M?' A S. Sutherland (National, Hauraki): Why don't, you start them UlMr Carr: That's just my idea. I thank the hon. gentleman, because it is my suggestion that we should stait StaTe brick-works, so that we can cut out the profit motive in the manuif^r r Carr baddS that in his. opinion the price being charged for bricks was a sca-idal, even with the tax on. ! d Mr W Sullivan (National, Bay oi I Plenty): You can't make bricks with--oUMr.°Carr alleged that a combine was operating long before the present Government took office.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 9
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207"A SCANDAL" Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 9
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