ACTIVITY IN CITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 5

ACTIVITY IN CITY.

BUILDING TRADE INCREASE. FIGURES FOR PAST QUARTER. General increases arc shown in tlie building statistics compiled by the Auckland City Council. During the first quarter of 1936 permits have been issued for work totalling £192,934 in value, as compared with £84,475 for the same period last year. In the same degree the total value of" building permits issued during the financial year ended yesterday, was £683,757, as compared with £414,308 in 1934-35. Houses greeted last year totalled 330, as compared with 207 in 1934-35. The monthly totals for the first quarters of the past three years are as follow:— 1030. 1935. 1034. January .! .. 75,006 23,3§3 63,105 February .. . 60.948 25,580 23,230 March 56,200 35,512 02,314 Permits for dwellings numbered 21 in a total of 136 during March, with an average value of £1170. Several of them had an estimated value of £1500, while only four were below £700. The new King's School, Remuera, large garage extensions for the P.W.D. in Stanley Street, and a small private hospital were the largest building works outside individual residences.

RETURNS FOR HASTINGS,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTINGS, Tuesday. The total number of new dwellings for which permits have been issued by the Hastings Borough Council in the municipal year ended to-day was 94, costing £68,320, or much more than double the previous year's figures and £7200 more than the combined total of any two years since the earthquake. In the five years since the earthquake 280 new dwellings, costing £153,1C0, have been erected. The average cost has risen from £605 in 1934-35, the lowest figure, to £726 this year. Expenditure on other domestic building during the year totalled a further £50l£ Expenditure on all classes of building rose from £114,419 in 1934-35, to £140,382 in 1935-30, an increase of £".5,963.