BAY OF ISLANDS.
The wet weather makes the want of English accommodations rather severely felt in New Zealand. It is much to be desired that iirickmttkers and bricklajrsrs'shoald find their way to this place. Tents, sheds, and houses without any chimnies, are no very pleasant things, when rain falls in- torrents. Here is plenty of clay for bricks, and plenty of shells for lime. Perhaps timber would be cheaper, if bricks could be substituted for wood. This place has made most rapid progress during the past year; and it therefore appears that all persons connected with building would find abundant employment and good pay. When once the Government is fairly established, the demand for workmen of this description will be very great in all the settlements of New Zealand. Timber is at present about 38s. a hundred, wholesale, on the beach. Bricks, we have heard, are, when procurable, as high as £6 per thousand. — Bay of Islands Gazette.
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 29, 31 October 1840, Page 3
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158BAY OF ISLANDS. New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 29, 31 October 1840, Page 3
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