The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 22
Bricks
Bricks
Are now manufactured in several parts of Southland. Unfortunately none of our brickmakers have yet adopted, in the manufacture, the patent systems which are in operation in other parts of the colony, but from the large number of brick buildings which are now being constructed the opinion can be safely formed that a patent brick manufactory would find sale for all the bricks which it could manufacture, and at say 35s to 40s per 1000. Patent bricks are almost impervious to water. Professor Hutton, in his Economic Geology, points out too the fireclay is found in most of our Southland coal measures.