COROMANDEL GRANITE.
Two scow loads of this well-known granite arrived recently from Mr. R. R. Hunt's extensive quarries at Moehau (sleeping wind)Paritu Point, Cqromandel Peninsula. This is a. very important event'for architects and builders, as there is now a good prospect of an abundant supply of this well-known granite got cheaply for the market, for the building trade, which has been almost entirely neglected because of its scarcity and ridiculously high price, which had risen to 17s 6d per cubic foot, which price the opening of Mr. Hunt's quarries will pull down to a price to enable the architects to stipulate for it, and the builders to use it. One enthusiastic user of the stone declares it to be the best, soundest, monumental and building granite yet discovered in the Dominion. The first two scow loads were sold to Mr. John Eouskill, the well-known monumental mason, who has been working up Coromandel granite for well over twenty years.—(Advt.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 13
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158COROMANDEL GRANITE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 13
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