BUILDING ACTIVITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 102, 31 March 1936, Page 6

BUILDING ACTIVITY

STEADY RECOVERY NOTED. highest for FIVE years. •Rmldinc activities in Palmerston x- tii dimi 112 tile twelve months in dtv arc the greatest for “issued bv the City Council being £167,452— nearly 100 per - cent® greater than. that for the immediately preceding . 12-monthly period. This is gratifying evidence of the recovery being made by the building trade. Important contracts are in progress in the city and others are pending, so that the outlook continues to be Ve T],. on n"mbe e r"of houses built.in the past year, 112, is nearly double that i-or the 1934-35 period, and they account for just over half the aggregate value of the work authorised. The contract of £II,OOO tor the new Commercial Hotel swelled. the tqtal figure for last May; £oOOJ for the College Street School was authorised in Jury; £8779 for the Hospital administrative block in November; and £6OOO for the Palace Theatre, now m course of reconstruction, in January. Ten new houses, representing a value of £8906, were authorised during the month ended to-day, the total value of the permits for March being £12,893. They include £looo for squash racquets courts m Princess Street and £3OO for the sports pavilion at the Boys’ High School.

MONTHLY FIGURES. Monthly comparisons for the last six vears, trli© first of wliicli was arecord, are as follow: . 1930-31.

Statistics for the past twenty-four building years, each ending on March 31. the City Council’s actual building year, and giving the aggregate value of all permits issued, are as follow:

Month. April May June July August .... September October ... November December January .. February . March Value of Houses. Houses. £ ' .... 13 11,335 .... 14 14,810 .... 17 16,051 .... 15 13,267 13 11.081 .... 17 15,666 .... 13 12,680 . .. 9 8,875 .... 11 8,331 .... 3 • 2,900 .... 4 3,010 .... 8 7,502 Total Value of Permits £ 14,362 17,607 24.110 22,207 15,121 24,761 15.110 23,186 9;i63 8,739 4,672 10,126 Totals .. .... 137 125,503 189,164 1931-32. Value. Total of houses. .value. Month. Houses. £ £ April .... 6 4,675 7,834 M av .... 13 10,676 12,268 June 4,148 8,497 July .... 6 4,447 4,933 August .... .... 7 5,355 6,448 September .... 8 5,877 7,371 October ... .... 9 6,921 8,204 November .... 3 1,937 2,553 December .... 5 3,450 3,915 January .. .... 9 7,224 7,781 February . .... 3 1,675 4,052 .reh .... 6 4,100 5,256 Totals ... .... 80 60,485 79,112 1932-33. Value. Total of houses. value. Month. Houses. £ £ April .... 8 6,055 6,711 May .... 5 3,900 14,161 J une .... 5 3,875 4,547 July .... 6 4,180 4,264 August .... 5 3,450 7,483 Septei .... 6 4,035 6,269 Octob .... 3 1,960 4,709 Noveni ...ci' .... 4 2,445 4,789 December 9 1,100 2,885 January .. 9 1,625 6,094 February . .... ; 4 2,760 3,550 March .... 4 2,319 4.513 Totals .. ... ' 54 37,704 69,975 1933-34. Value Total Month. Houses, of houses. Value. £ £ April /9 1,000 1,862 May 9 800 1,46'J June .... 3 1,562 2,077 July .... 13 9,276 13,477 August .... .... 13 8,533 10,208 September .... 11 8,221 14,692 October .... .... 8 5,018 6,280 iNovember .... 8 • 6,1)58 7,102 December .. .... 9 5,564 6,076 January ... .... 8 5,537 6,836 February .. .... 2 1,256 3,511 March .... 6 3,775 4,932 Totals ... .... 85 ' 56,600 78,522 1934-35. V alue Total Month. Houses of houses. Value. £ £ April .... 3 1,896 - 5,078 May .... 4 2,360 4,923 •June .... 4 2,103 3,364 July .... 3 2,260 ' 3,159 August .... 6 3,825 4,353 September ... 11 8,931 16,912 October .... 3 6,118 20,466 November . .... 9 6,129 7,249 December 7 4,523 4,853 January .... 6 4,321 5,45S February . .... 3 1,700 4,210 March .... .... 8 4,354 7,686 Totals . .... 67 48,520 87,711 1935-36. Value Total Month. Houses. of houses. Value. . £ £ April 7 4,132 14,170 May .... 11 7,376 ' 19,976 June .... 9 6,877 13,733 J uly 8 5,674 15,227 August .... .... 16 11,785 14,491 September .... 14 1] ,585 17,747 October ... .... 7 4,929 6,247 November .... 13 10,158 20,061 December .... 5 3,560 6,741 January ... .... 7 5,528 18,006 February . .... 5 3,128 8,160 March .... 10 9,763 12,893 Totals ... .... 112 84,495 167,452 TWENTY-FOUR YEARS’ REVIEW.

Year Value £ 1912-13 * 73,784 1913-14 78,303 1914-15 . 93,690 1915-16 ' 80,811 1916-17 73,423 1917-18 36,110 1918-19 50,085 1919-20 148,659 1920-21 224,262 1921-22 146,144 1922-23 168,171 1923-24 227,513 1924-25 261,267 1925-26 298,495 1926-27 320,760 1927-28 253,528 1928-29 278,407 1929-30 335,190 1930-31 189,164 1931-32 79,112 1932-33 69 975 1933-34 78.522 1934-35 87,711 1935-36 167,452