BUILDING OPERATIONS IN AUCKLAND.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13095, 21 April 1908, Page 7

BUILDING OPERATIONS IN AUCKLAND.

(SPECIAL TO "THE PREBB.")

AUCKLAND, April 20

During tho financial year ended March 31st, buildings to tho value of tliroe-quarters of a million wero put m band in Auckland City and suburbs, aa follows:—Grafton bridge, £354,000; railway wharf sheds, £25,430; hospital buildings. £20,000; extension, of Customs buildings, £16,954; Girls' High School, £13,930; Jubilee Institution for the Blind, £13,735; Training College, £84,000; "Working Men's Club, £44,0C0; Chepel for Little Sfetore of the Poor, Tweed street, £2800; temporary buildings, School of Mrines, £13<6; Mount Eden Baptist- Church. £1200; alterations and additions to Auckland PoHoe Station, £2000; Newmarket Police Station, £2000; Devonport Post Office, £2o00; 'two lodges end one- Sun-day-school buildings, £2000.

Big ac this total is, ib will be easily eclipsed by tho public biiilddngp wihictb are to bo put in hand this yonr. Altogether these will run into over £250,000, made up «s follows:—New Post Office, £85.400; Town Hall, £80,000; Seddon Memorial Technical Oollese, £30,000; Harbour Board offices. £2-5.000; V.M.C.A. building, £17.000 ; Edendale School, £2300; Grey Lynn School, £1800; ecSiool at Stanley Bay, £1300. Tho meet remarkable foaiAire, however, of tho building activity of tho jxist financial voar lhas 'been the -astonishing rat© at which dwelling-houses havo heeTi going up. The total number of residences put in hand in the city and suburbs during that period vras 885, vaJjued at £376 5 126. This is exclusive of tho figures for ■Mount Iloskiill, wliidi could not be aeoerteined, antl whicJi would in all probability, have brought tihe total up to over 900 dwellings, valued at about £-100,000.

It is an interesting fact that in connection with the lc€n preteaitioue style of 'houso erected, the owners in many cases have (sought the assistance of the Governmont in getting money advanced ander the Advances to "Wcrkore Act. Since tho Act carno into oi>orH.tion in January, 1907, 240 applications have been mado in for jissiatance which was granted to the extent of .£•00,000.