REBUILDING NAPIER.
AUGUST MONTH A RECORD. VALUE OF PERMITS, £92,740. TOTAL SINCE 1931, £750,000. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ..,,.■ NAPIER, August proved to...be a record,.mouth for building in Napier, the value-of permits issued reaching. £92,740,. \ and * . ■ ,•» eclipsing tlie previous highest figure of £80,011 for July of last year. 'Till August permits include' four between £10,000 and £20,000,. among them one for the new Plaza Theatre," and\ two new hotels. 'i ■■. Of the month's total, £91;965wa5.f0n new business premises; only £775 being for dwellings. The-.total value/of -the building undertaken in Napier since ;the; earthquake is now just under. £750,000, as "shown by the following summary:—. Permanent buildings, £512,179; tempori ary (none built since December,'l93l) j £37,803; dwellings, £38,802; expeiidi-" ture from relief, funds (without j'permits), £120,500;. v bjuldings'.€irecf!Bd ..ami other work done by the .Public; Works Department (without permits), £38,302 \ : total, £747,645.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 9
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