PROGRESS OF AUCKLAND.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 22 April 1908, Page 4

PROGRESS OF AUCKLAND.

(DV rEI.EOEAI'H—SI-kCIII,. COEttESPONDENT.) ■ ■ Auckland, April 21. ■ Ail article is published in the Herald" . showing that during the financial year onded, March 31;;1903, buildings to the value ,of hilly three-quarters of a'inillion v were put; in harid in Auckland City"and suburbs. Of this amount £152,325 has-: been spent in.'tlic erection of public :buildings, .'£90,535 in warehouses- and ■ offices, £81,175 in .shops,. £376,126/, iri'.;dwcl.lings,; £l6|Bos ; m.factories, stables,"etc;,-and , ■ from.' £20,000 ;to.' £30,000' i- additions .and alterations* to ; premises. ../The ..number/ of >.••' ,• .shops- erected .and in coiirselpf erection'; aur- . ing- .tho! year, is set down at. 109,- and. the ■:. , 'number of ■ dwellings at 885, - both I dxclusivt 'of ,'MMint Rosfeil),/the " figures . for / which could 1 not bo ascertained. It is-also'shown .'that during, the'-ensuing year additional pub-: /'. ,lie 'buildings-to'. the/, value/of-' £250,00Q .will - ■ bo commenecd. : '// > i/// ..'' - The following is a list of the .public buildings which have been _put under- ?oiistruotiofi siuce April 1, 1907:— /;'•;-., :: ' Grafton Bridge-. ... •... ~. 35,000 Railway wharf, sheds.... ..., -. ... 23,430 ■ Hospital , buildings .- 20,000 ■ •Extension of Customs buddings 1(>,954 Girls'- High School ... • ;/'-13,93.0 ■Jubilea Institution for. the Blind ... 13,/3o .Training - College "/; •.. •• ■ -•, . 'Working Men!s .C1ub;4.000,, Chapel for Littlo Sisters of the Poor,;/- ... Tweed Street ■... 2,800. Temporary. building. for' School of Mines ■ ..... ... . .... , .1,376 Mount' Eden. Baptist Church ... .' 1,200 ■Alterations, and"additions' to Auck-; . / ,'v . land I'olicO-'-StationX •••. , ~2,000 :( Nowmarket Police' Siat-ion ... •'•..." 2,000 yDevonport • Post Office.: ... v.V - . 2,500 • , Two lodeos and one Sunda.y school ; . ; / building, .v.//.;' ..... .... ... 2,000 Total ...-152,325 ■ Big as'- this total- ■is it- will be easily. :. eclipsed by- tlio public: buildings which are to be put -in hand this year. -. Altogether these will run -into over- £250,000, made up as follows':— -. New Post Offico ' ••• •••.-831959 Town Hall ' ■ ...-- ...,- ... -.§9'959- J Seddon Memorial 'Technical College , 30,000 Harbour Board Offices .... ... ••23,00Q Y.M.C.A. Buildings" ... . :/. /. V l',ooo , Edendalo • School / ; Grey Lynn School /'...'. ' ~v. •'. •/•••■. School at Stanlo.v Bay* .....1,300 1 The approxiinatij cost .of-the . new warehouses aud -.offices';'commeiiced_:'d« r ing tho '; period in question is £90,535.. .Many of these.' premises have/beenVeonipleted, ' while/ the others are still upder. contraction.' Of the buildings at' present in course of construction there are. .thjeq ,which- iiivolvo an expenditure of ever £7,600 each, j _ .- In".regard to now dwellings, Mount-.Albert leads the way with 142'extVa Minuses,', the city'bfeing next with 115. ; .\Vitli the inauguration of the electric train's, in . the Mount Edeiv and-Takapuiia districts'.,it, is'expected/ ' that buildings in these localities will go up very rapidly. -The same, veiriril-k applies to Grey Lynnl when the Surrey/Hills Estate, the nearest available land to the City, is cut up. Generally ; sneaking ■. ,th« . style -,of houses put up in the Oily, and suhurhs'during the past year has beenof'a:;siitisfactory < class. Tlio. Kreat majority, in'tho -matter-, of >.• - cost range from £350 to £450,. bill f-hore-" nro others, again; which run- into as rtiuohas £1000 : and- £1500, and in one ca£p>crf £3000. ■''/ ' ,-■'/•- '-/■>'-, ..." ..: