LAND AND BUILDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 11

LAND AND BUILDINGS.

MATTERS STILL QUIET. SOME NEW BUILDINGS. 'nil; iioi'siNi, siidKT.vcr.. Alii(ii-t- iin- nut iiAiM- iiriivr in iti<l'"iiMin« line Unit is f.ir building i-.m----tom )>I a lei]- and il i> i|iiitp Heiir tiuii the pPIlk ill tin; liuilllilirr liimUll ha- lievll pnsspd. A couple of huihliniis which will inn in id Miinr thousand* i.f jumml-. mid fur Wllii-ll U'lllliT* HIT to In- cullci.. HIT prenii-es for Messrs. 1.. 1). Niuluin ami I'ompiiuy. in ln>tolii-i Snvci. hihl hlsu prcniwrs for Burns, I'llMji mul i oni|inny. in An/.iir Avenue. The iiuunli of .lanuarv. Hhicli cloM'.l la.-t we.'k. was a ~ui,'.| rmr. but tin' iniinirijia] iiml uiTliitivt.x' oUiri-s diil not start the New Year until •human- mi that it is ;i vi-rv i-lmrt muuth.'aiul pcrliap-s w.iin- ut tin' i.ili.-,-> linve only iiliw thijioujilily m<tili-tl down to liuMmVs. Miv-r-. -I. T. .liilinii and Sons liavn tin- new [ircmivfi for tin- I'liki'iuiru I'ulliorit'- in Anziic Avcnur well umler way. Tliis job, for which Mr. l>. l'mtpn-un i.nrrliiicel. will run into souietliing liku £so(in. While in Eupliui.l Miri.ms wlipiuchavi" been put into operation, the lal.--t is tile selieine, whi.-h the cables uniiounce is now well under way. very little r,u ;l wnle lm» been attempted in Ki-w Zealand to i-opo with the housinp rhortufro here. Vnrioiw local liihHph and the liiiilway Department made an endeavour to do something and bewail eriK-Hnj; dwelling either for their own Pinploypon or other workers, but their operations were not. on all extensive c-ale. and were dropped after a time. The dnprnnipiit, too, assi-ted ill Hilrancing money for home building at n cheap rate, but'here. too. almost a halt has been called, and just now the amoun' of homo liuildinc being rurrierl out very s-iuall compared with a couple of years npo. And with (ho arrivals intotiio Dominion conFi.-tently excerdinfr tho departures, the acute position which has existed over the housin- shortage i* not gettinjr any casior.