BUILDING PROGRESS.
RETURNS FROM GISBORNE. HIGHEST VALUE SINCE 1929. (By Telegraph-—Own .Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. Building construction work carried out in Gtaborne during the cWen month* of thin year • was valued at £07,502, representing the highest point reached in any year since 1020. While the vahie has been swelled bv a number of major jobs, the statistics" do not include the State housing blo-ks, those completed and under construction being conservatively assessed at over £20,!)00. A building to house the new automatic telephone exchange, a contract for which was let at £18,700, increased substantially the value of last month's permits. Construction has beet, started on a site at the corner of Customhouse Street and Childers Road. Hotisp building wan maintained nt a fairly high level, 32 being sanctioned at a cost of £28,033. The next highest building total was in 1929, when 205 permits for work were issued at an estimated cost of £100^6(1.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 12
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154BUILDING PROGRESS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 12
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