AUCKLAND BRICKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12489, 5 February 1904, Page 7

AUCKLAND BRICKS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your correspondent "Brickmaker," after an impertinent preface to his letter in to-day's issue, says that there is no overproduction of good bricks in this city. He says that he knows of a yard where 100.000 bricks are stacked, waiting for a market. Ho says many other things not pertinent to mv reply to hi 3 first letter. My final reply is that if he has 100,000 marketable bricks I will buy them myself at the usual figure. If he had 100,000 bricks fit to use lie could sell them in 10 minutes. But he hasn't. "Brickmaker" is evidently a person who dares not show his name, who desires to keep other people, if he can, . om producing good building bricks by the assertion that there are many thousands of bricks novv waiting for demand. There is not ft builder, contractor or exporter of bricks in Auckland that will not tell you that- lie cannot get good bricks here. Brickmaker's" 100,000 bricksif they exist arc probably that class of burnt dirt which nobody, even under the present strong demand for good bricks, would take at a gift. Don't let the people forget that there is good and bad of everything. If this man hs.s 100,000 bricks in his yard fit to build with he has simply to come to my office and 1 will sell them for him as soon as they are passed by the architect. Why does not "Brickmaker" give his name '! Mine is Edwin Edwards. '' TO THE EDITOR. 'Sir,—-Ko controversy anenfc Auokland bricks, and in reply to " Brickmaker," in your issue of 2nd -irist. (who apparently' has net the courage to subscribe his own name): Primarily, he asserts that ho can introduce any reader of your valuable paper to a brickyard in, or near, Auckland wherein are 100,000 bricks awaiting sale. This may be so, but on the face of the proposition as propounded by your correspondent " Brickmaker," there must bo something radically wrong in connection with the quality of this supposed "surplus of bricks." As a matter of fact, I am prepared to purchase, 0.0.d., the whole "surplus," subject to tho approval of quality by my architect. This imaginary " surplus " is a myth, inasmuch as at the present moment I can place 1,500,000 bricks of good quality at top values, and which, under existing conditions, it is impossible to obtain in Auckland at this date for immediate delivery.—l am, etc., M. H. Frost. Auckland, February 4, 1904.