MUNICIPAL BRICKS

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1925, Page 3

MUNICIPAL BRICKS

1 he Labour I’aUx s propoial tor the establishment of a niunicipal brick workfc ;rs part o| a housing polhx in Wellington (says the N.Z. Worker) has drawn warm protests Irom what (««, r theinsci\ (•, the Liber.d papers in the < ap;tal (. itx. 'I he N.Z. 'Times and the. I 4 rce Lance, in both of which the Geddes famil y bad a big :.n I hiencc, are in full cry after th r Labour I’arty on this issue, and their excitement almost leads us to suspect that thci’ proprietors are shareholders in some private brick works. We wonder. ’W < do know that one of the propr.t ,or s of a Tory newspajier in Wellington holds shares in a new lx-lorined brick company, and we naiurallx expect to ■g‘ct a; blast" from that quarter, nm the Liberal jiress got in f rst. Very natural too, for there iy no difference between them. But xvben they have finished berating 11k* Laibour Party they might explain that report by xlic late citv engineer. Mr. Morton, in xvhicb b.* recomnieiioed a municipal brick xvorks as a means of reducing costs. Mr. Morton evidently believed that municipal enterprise was mmc efficient and economical than private profiteering.