PROPERTY AND PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 5 October 1923, Page 10

PROPERTY AND PROGRESS.

PROM AGENTS AND OTHERS. The following advertisement is taken from an Auckland paper published in 1863:— " To Small Capitalists.—Good building allotments, situated on the Karangahape Road, Newton Road, Wellington Street, Napier Street, Franklyn Street, Collingwood Street, Anglesea Street, and Hepburn Street, on terms liberal and easy.

Sections in Remuera are high-priced. Some land in Upland Road can be bought for £16 to £17 per foot. Much higher prices have-been given in other streets. During the last twelve months nine shops have been built on Remuera Road, near Victoria Avenue, and seven more are under way. These will be- at the corner of Victoria Avenue. Other business premises are to be built at the corner of Clonbern Road. Eight shops are being built at the Remuera tram terminus. Extensive alterations are to be made to Watson's Buildings, Queen Street. Two additional storeys are to be added, making the block five-storeyed. The building is to be remodelled and renovated. The cost is estimated at £25,000. Much money is squandered unnecessarily in subdivisions. Roads are made according to plans; then the roads are picked up again for the water, and again for the gas, and again for the sewers. There is no end of expense, and this is all loaded on to the land. CURRENT QUOTATIONS. According to the "Builders' Record," the following quotations are those generally ruling in Auckland this week:— Bricks, truck quantities, £5 3/ f.o.b. New Lynn; delivered in city within half a i mile any suburban station. £0 9/3 per 1000; cement, f.o.b. or f.0.r.. £6 1/3 per ton; corrugated iron, £33 per ton basis; I.e. ridging, 16in, 6id per foot; wire nail 3, 24/ per cwt; leadhcad nails, 45/ per cwt; wall-board, 25/ to 35/ per ! 100 square feet; fibrous plastered sheets, | 3/3 per square yard, less 10 per cent ex works; plaster, 20/ to-22/ per bag; 3ft kitchen ranges, with h.p. boilers, £13 5/, less 10 p.c, porcelain enamelled baths, oft 6in £10 to £12, 6ft £11 10/ to £13 10/; earthenware basins, 50/ to 80/. less 10 per cent; compo. pipe and lead pipe, 45/ to 50/ per cwt; Oregon inside doors, 29/6 to 32/6; front doors, unglazed, 48/ to 65/; Oregon laths, 4ft 6in. averaging 90 per bundle, 7/ to 9/ per bundle; Oregon three-ply, 3-16 in, (>i per square foot, Jin 8d per square foot; Cottonwood three-ply, 3-16 in, 30/ per 100 square feet; white lead, best English, 65/ to 68/ per cwt; row linseed oil. English, 6/6 to 7/6 per gallon; No. 2 washed and boiled scrim, lid per yard; coppers, 2/9 to 3/3 per gallon. TIMBER PRICES. The following prices for timber are ruling in Auckland: —0.8. scantling, 25/6; building heart scantling, 36/6; 0.8. weatherboards and flooring, 36/6; 0.8. matchlining, 32/; heart rimu weatherboards and T. and G., 50/6; seasoned, 53/6; heart matai weatherboards and T. and G., 53/fi; seasoned, 56/6; rough lining, Jin, 17/; second-class scantling, 21/; second-class boards, 225/; rough heart totara scantling, 36/6; building totara scantling, 55/; heart totara, 60/; lsts, kauri, 60/; rough heart, 40/; shaky heart, 31/; Oregon clears, 56/; Oregon merchantable, 37/6.