HOUSE CONSTRUCTION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19668, 11 July 1929, Page 4

HOUSE CONSTRUCTION.

FIGURES FOR HALF \B-4R. May saw remarkable activity in house construction, the City Council authorising the erection of 60 dwellings in that month. Since the beginning of the year the Council has issued permits for the construction of J!47 dwellings, or an average of 41 per month. Tnis is not quite so many as the monthly average last year, which reached 46, the total for the year being 641. The following are the monthly figures for 1928 and for the first six

NEW CHURCHES. THREE BEING BUILT. Constructed to a special design, tl*e new St. Andrew's Church at Culrerden is nenrinjz completion. It is of reinforced concrete, faced with Halswell bluestone, and with a slate roof and spire. Messrs Keir and Thompson, of Rangiora, are the builders. Commenced in 1384, the Phillinstown Anglican Church has been added to at various times, and Messrs Winsor and (ji-av now have the fin a', contract well on towards completion. The chancel is the principal part of their work, and the materials being used are brick and "Within the past few days Messrs D. «?cott and Son have commenced excavations for the foundations of the Second Church of Christ in Worcester street TJV'est, which will be erected in brick __,f reinforced concrete. Mr R- I-cve'l-Smith is tho architect' j or tietiir*® cfcarehfl* mentiowxi.

months of this year — 1928. January . 35 43 February .. 47 41 March . ■ .. Hi 4ii April .. 2d 47 jfay • . GO 57 June . 42 50 July .. — 48 August • • — 47 September .. — 45 October ... .. — 43 November .. — 32 December .. — 37