BUILDING REVIVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 3

BUILDING REVIVAL.

WELLINGTON AND HAWKE'S BAY. SIX NEW BANK*-.PREMISES. A revival in the building trade is reported from Wellington city and provincial districts, and also from Hawke's Bay. The Bank of New Zealand is to have new premises built at Hastings and Napier. For tlie former the tender of the Fletcher Construction Company has been accepted and the total estimated cost, including furnishings, is in the vicinity of £12,000. A contract for the construction of new premises for the Bank of Australasia., Napier, has been lot for £3075. Plans are being prepared for new premises for the National Bank of New Zealand in both Napier and Hastings. It is understood that each of the buildings will call for an expenditure of about £7000. Messrs. Trevor Brothers have the contract for the construction of new premises in Napier for the Union Bank of Australia. Thus no fewer than six bank buildings are about to be constructed in Hawke's Bay. "■ Several important contracts are pending in Wellington, the principal being for the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum on the Mount Cook site. Tenders for this large job, the architects for which are Messrs. Gummer and Ford, of Auckland, are to close on November 9. A contract expected' to be let soon is for a new factory building for the Empire Printing and Box Manufacturing Company, at a cost of about £9000. Another projected work is a modern cold store for the Co-operative Dairy Producers' Freezing Company, Ltd., at a cost of about £14,000. A block of modern shops and flats will be built in Rona Bay, Eastbourne.