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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 303, 16 September 1921, Page 5

Pm-sons who arc thinking about building residences inny be interested in learning the prices at which snmnlo contracts were recently signed in Dunedin (says the "Star"). For a plain fourroomed cottage, with all necessaries bnt no fancy equipment, the figure was £900: nn undertaking to erect a five-roomed residence was nt- tho price of about .etfinn. n nd five-roomed residence with a brick shell was contracted for at £1.225. These prices are for iron roofs, and do not include expensive elaboration of any sort, but all ordinary conveniences ara provided. It is said that within tho past fortnight there arc signs of a distinct, revival in residence building in and about Dunedin, tho idea gaining ground that it is unprofitable to postpone building in tho hope of wages coming down.