DECLINE IN BUILDING.
VALUE OF PERMITS. The value represented by building permits issued in the larger centres durinrr February was £655,571, a decrease 0 of £69,745 as compared with January, and of £201.206 below the total tor February, 1939, reports the Abstract of Statistics. For the first two months of 1940 the value represented by these permits amounted to £1.440,887, as compared with £1,787,747 in the same period of 1939, a decrease of 19.4 per cent. Included in the statistics for February, 1940. are permits for the erection of 595 dwellings of a total value of £577,170. The corresponding figures for January were 501 and £491.385, and lor February, 1939, 549 and £534,809The dwelling figures for February, 1940, include 349 dwellings the erection of which was commenced b.v the Housing Construction Branch of the State Advances Corporation, which also commenced operations on 42 new dwellings in other districts. The Housing Construction Branch’s figures for Februarv, 1939, were 263 dwellings in the larger centres and 33 in other districts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 3
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168DECLINE IN BUILDING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 3
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