SLIGHTLY LESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 13

SLIGHTLY LESS.

BUILDING FIGURES FOR YEAR

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LAROK BUSINESS PREMISES.

Auckland'* changing skyline i« not the ku% indjration of the enterprise and progress in the pa»t twelve month*. A number of largo buildings that were begun in 1825 were carried towards completion; others wens begun and finished during the brief period, and . ivte ww commenced towards the c1«m; of the war n fact, 10*27 marked . SSLSIKI' he vigorous building poliry that was begun a few year* ago, and u gradually having the effect of giving a modern anpearancc to Queen Street and a number of important atreeta *herc .lcvo|n,, m rnU were begun quite recently. An»c Avenue hea figured prominently in the city', building programme ainte 1024, a ,,,| the approaching removal «f lhc reil •Ution to it* new *it- i,, n,. arh Roa ,, ta * contributed its share to the Mradv advance of the eastern part of the city*. The building activities for the year approach the record, being only £«oGl<*s tftan la*t year in the total estimated v»luc, as shown by the following return*: lasjsn. laao-s; &JL" V-Wi u nrU a %&\ J , "* 1J"i,,.»,| May .Vu'.«ui {«pe I«f.«TH Jane .... ivCrc} July KH..W. j,,i,. ir.i«wi, . 131.4T3 Not-rnbrr I'Vilsw Hw-nHH-r . ISUII3 . l.v' vV Jnntwry ... TI.JMT Jenuarjr .. .vTj(Q March .... l$&l* M»irh .... fI,M?,USe ~ii;WU32 It may l»o remarked that the building enterprise of Auckland recently has been chiefly in connect iou with bu»ine«s premises, and tho progrvM of bousing has advanced beyond the city limit* t<. ibc boroughs and fuhurban dbtricts on all •ides. The largcftt building cntcrpriM>*i upon wbkh work ha« lately hc*n carried out are; The War Memorial Museum, on the outer Domain, which i« covtina £183,500, and should be fiuUhed before Christina*; a new eight-storpy block for Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co., in Fort Ktrcet, at a cost of £71,118; tho new] l)ilworth building, at the corner of Quivn and Customs Street Ea*t; the Waunt j Ktreet depot for the city tram* ( £30.300) and the National Mutual A*»uraiK« Cu. in Chancery Street and Field Une > ( £.10.000). ,

BOOM lM DUMEDXH.

ißy Telegraph.—Press A*u>ciatiao t DUXEDIX, thi« day. niiildinjr permits issued in Diiuedin in the fimuuial year oniMhutc a record. Their value nu £811,3:1;, acain*l £325,121 l«st vcar.