SHAVINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21508, 5 September 1933, Page 2

SHAVINGS

REMOVING SALES TAX. “ .Although the .sales tax is imposed in many other countries 1 can assure you, speaking for myself and my colleagues in the Cabinet, that me regard the sales tax as one that should not be imposed any longer than is absolutely necessary.’’—The Hon. E. A. Ransom at Lyttelton last week. * « • m BRISTOL BUILDING RENOVATIONS, The plans and specifications dealing with the proposed alterations to the Bristol Piano Company’s building, which recently changed hands to a Dunedin syndicate, have now been completed by the architects, Messrs Miller and AVhite, and it is expected that a start will be made this week by Mr A. M'Laren to carry out the alterations for tiie Capitol Building Company. The work comprises the erecting of lift wells for the installation of new lifts, alterations to the ground floor, and subdivision of the upper floors into suites suitable for professional people. ♦ * * « NEW BOATHOUSE.

Arrangements for the erection of a new and commodious building for the Otago Rowing Club are proceeding satisfactorily. The Harbour Board has been approached for a suitable allocation of laud at the end of Kitchener street, and the board has agreed to give the club a sufficiently large are- for its requirements right on the waterfront. While the old boathouse was built out over the water the new building will probably be erected against the retaining wall. When completed tin building will be equal to anything of its kind in the dominion, and will represent the adoption by the club of a wise policy in the provision of a building fund some time before the war. * * * * STUART STREET ALTERATION, In recent years Stuart str.et, the main thoroughfare from the Dunedin railway station, has seen many alterations and improvements to its commercial buildings. The latest change to be effected is the construction of an up-to-date cafe on the ground floor of Mooney’s building, a floor space which was previously occupied by Everyone’s fruit business. The alterations were executed by the Love Construction Company for Mr Peter Dalliessi, proprietor of the Bon Cafe in the adjoining building. In addition to providing a cafe, the contractors converted the space fronting the street level into two small shops. » « « • BUILDING SUBSIDY.

The estimated cost of _ the work proposed under the applications in Auckland for the Unemployment Board’s building subsidv has now reached almost £300,000. Last week an additional sixty-three applications were received, brinc'mr the number Indeed in Auckland to 694 and the total estimated cost to £293,331. Of this amount it is estimated the labour costs will absorb £95,758. and the amount to bo paid in subsidy will be approximately £35,090. Applications for the subsidy at Hamilton total 125, and involve work estimated to cost £44,000. The value of the subsidies applied for is £4,500. It is proposed to erect forty-seven new houses with the help of the subsidy.

RUSSIAN I-URNITURE. Considerable progress has been made in the manufacture of furniture in the Soviet Union (says an English trade journal). It further states that a new furniture factory, equipped with the latest machinery and having a potential annual output of _ sixteen million roubles worth of furniture, is to rise at Khima, a village in the Moscow district, Tho site of the new plant is on the Moscow-Volga Canal, and has direct railroad communication with North Caucasus. Ukraine, White Russia, and other points which are expected to keep the plant supplied with raw materials. A hundred thousand theatre seats, 10,000 soft divans, large numbers of cupboards, book cases, tables, and other articles will be manufactured in mass quantities. The designers of the plant, however, have guarded against tho dangers of over-standardisation, and the project provides for several departments where furniture will be made according to new patterns.