BUILDING ACTIVITY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 272, 1 November 1932, Page 5

BUILDING ACTIVITY

QUIETER MONTH IN HASTINGS. PERMITS FOR SEVEN NEW DWELLINGS. Seven new dwellings of an estimated total cost of £5(136 form the main feature of building work for which permits were issued in Hastings during Octover. The next largest item was a sum of £382 represented in permits for two shops. The total number of permits issued was 21, anj the expenditure represented amounted to £662(1 in comparison with 14 permits representing an expenditure of £12,768 in October last year. Since April 1 a total of 123 permits representing an expenditure of £65,102 have been issued, as against 176 permits for an expenditure of £134,873 in the previous equivalent period.

NAPIER FIGURES.

£673,599 SINCE EARTHQUAKE.

Last month was a fairly slack month as far as the value of the building permits issued by the Napier borough authorities are concerned, there having been 19 permits issued for buildings estimated to cost £36,036. The figures for the three previous months were: July £29,938, August £90,890, September £51,343. The value of the permits in the month of October last year, however, was £15,687. Since the earthquake the value of the work for which permits have been issued now stands at £673,599. The largest building operations concerned in last month's permits were: The Napier Fire Brigade Station in Tennyson street (£8370), Mr J. C. Bryant’s building at the corner of Hastings and Tennyson streets (£7769), the Union Bank at the* corner of Emerson and Hastings streets (£6946), the Napier Club on the Marine Parade (£3955), the Bank of Australasia on the corner of Hastings and Emerson streets (£3100), Mrs S. Fenwick’s shops and offices in Emerson street (£2595). Eight of the 19 permits effect business premises which are to be either reconstructed or altered. It is pleasing to note that there has been an increase in the building, reconditioning or alteration of residences, owing probably to the fact that there is still a shortage of houses as has been the case from shortly after the earthquake. There were three new dwellings and five dwellings to be altered or reconstructed for which permits were issued during the month. The three new houses are for Mr N. McLean in Chaucer road (£685), Mr A. McGlashan in Carlyle street (£465) and for Mr H. H. Gould in Andrew street (£375).