BUILDING ESTIMATES

Evening Star, Issue 24082, 31 December 1941, Page 8

BUILDING ESTIMATES

INCREASE THIS MONTH YEAR'S FIGURES ALSO HIGHER Estimates for buildings for which permits have been issued this month show a total of £98,508, which is a record for the year to date. The previous best was a total of nearly £92,000, in August. One contract makes up the greater part, that being the X-ray block in Hanover street, constructed by Messrs R. Mitchell and Sons, for the Otago Hospital Board. This month also, permits have been issued for 20 Government houses. During the year 519 permits have boon applied for. involving a total of £4,01.641. compared with 573 permits and a total of £309.959 last year. Onethird of this year's total is made up of two contracts, one being the previ-ously-mentioned job in Hanover street and'the other the restoration of the building of Speight's Brewery, which was destroyed by fire. -The work commenced about the middle of August, but it is not expected that it will be completed under a year. Practically all of that block on Canongato and ißattray street, on which the old building was situated, will be built on. Ks> cept for August and December, the monthly totals have shown a tendency to decrease, and have generally been in the vicinity of £20,000. The building of the United Friendly Societies’ dispensary, on the corner of Princes street and Moray Place, the.cost of which was estimated at £3,176, and which has recently been concluded, and that of the Industrial School at Lookout Point, at a cost of £9.217, also help to swell the yearly total.