AUSTRALIAN BUILDING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN BUILDING

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE

"Building in Sydney seems to have stopped'altogether," remarked Mr. W. W. Winsor, builder, of Christchureh, who returned by the Maunganui to-day from'na. visit to Australia. "Apparently -there?are o_nly two buildings of any size in progress, and from information I gathered things are- very; slack in-deed.--The-number of office buildings to let is, amazing, and in one place whiqli provides -300. suites there were 0n4y:30. tenants.

■ •" Melbourne, seems to be a bit busier, and- fronu a casual observation there appears to be four or five times as much .going: on- there as there is in; Sydney. Melbourne, apparently was not so overbuilt as. Sydney." • . Beferring to Canberra, which he had visited four years ago, Mr. Winsor, contrasting the conditions then and now, said that as far as administration buildings were, concerned, nothing further hadibeen done, but a remarkable building, the-Instituto of Anatomy had been- completed. Much had. been 'done in the way of the plantirigof trees and shrubs, and. many concrete roads had been: laid.. . .

As a. former president oj; the Canterbury Forestry League, Mr. Winnor took ,tho opportunity of visiting some of the areas near Canberra.. "They aro certainly coming away, pretty well," he said, "but from the point of view of forestry as we understand it, I should imagine that there is no opportunity for exotic timbers to be grown in that part ■of Australia and to be within fifty per cent; of the success they are in New Zealand."