LOCAL BUILDING

Evening Star, Issue 22070, 2 July 1935, Page 2

LOCAL BUILDING

HOME CONSTRUCTION ACTIVE PERMITS FOR 42 HOUSES GRANTED IN TWO MONTHS Permits issued bv the city building surveyor during the month or June reached a total value of £23,273, as compared with £28,166 in May and £17,236 in June last year. Consider able activity is apparent in homo con struction, 19 permits for this purpose being granted in June arid 23 in May. The value of the homes ranged from £350 to one over £I,OOO. Alterations and additions to another home involved over £2,000, and two flats in Pitt street accounted for close on £2,000. The only coraercial undertaking of any size involves the alterations to His Majesty’s Theatre. • Builders who secured contracts to the value of £SOO and over were as fol lows : —Sykes and Johnson, brick dwel ling (two flats), Pitt street; composite dwelling Bellevue street; W. Craig, composite dwelling, Cranley street; T Ferguson, alteration and addition brick dwelling, earner , Union and George streets; J. L. Chisholm, composite dwelling, Lynn street; C. J. Pettitt, wooden dwelling, Bridge street; J. 11 Payton, wooden dwelling, Forfa? street; Fletcher Construction Company Ltd., alterations to His Majesty’s Theatre; J. Donaldson, composite dwellings, Macandrew road, Cranston street. Grand View crescent, and Kenmuro road; G. and S. Booth, composite dwelling, Signal Hill road; T. G. Waters, composite dwelling, Springhill road; J. E. Gibson, composite dwelling, Mornington road; R. C. Watson, wooden dwelling, Passmore crescent ; Anderson and Brawn, composite dwelling, Mer chison street; A. H. Boyd, composite dwelling, Macandrew road; D. A Swan, wooden dwelling, Glen road; A, M'Laren, composite dwelling, l)nnf don/ild street; C. L. Anderson, composite' dwelling, M‘Gregor street. GRAND HOTEL IMPROVEMENT. A large plumbing contract has been secured by a local lirm for the modernisation of the bedrooms and bathrooms in the Grand Hotel. Basins, served by hot and cold water, are to be installed in. every bedroom, while the bathroom accommodation is to be brought up to date. Other improvements are in view. Messrs Salmond and Salmond are the architects for the work, which involved the preparation of comprehensive plans covering the placing and connecting up of a complicated network of pipes throughout the building.