MOUNT ROSKILL'S PROGRESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18763, 17 July 1924, Page 14

MOUNT ROSKILL'S PROGRESS

RENEWAL OF ACTIVITY. Very few building permits have been issued lately by the Mount Eoskill Boad Board, this being in striking -contrast, to the activity daring tho summer. It appears that this wis; due to the reluctance of owners to commence building during the winter, for at. the meeting of the board on Tuesdav evening there w&a a clear indicationtnafc building operations are to be resumed on an active scale. The • building inspector reported that during the previoiiisi fortnight no fewer than 15 building been issuisd, comprising six dwellings to a total value of £6200, and various additions and garages tb a further value of £2515. Majiy Bubdivisional plans wcre before the ./board for approval. These included a plan of Wirwtone's old quarry site in Three Kings Road, near the proposed tram terminus), which has been surveyed for jshop eites, Tho chairman,' Mr. G. K. Tanzley, stated that ho understood that, many of thuso sites had already been •sold., / / Residential subdivisions also, indicate that a heavy building'■£ programme M»« planned for tho the board rapjiiroved of the subdivision of Mr. W, Ji.Robinson's property into '20. Motions* also the property of Mi'. : G. Read in Pah Avenue, Mr. i Worrall's in Mount Albert Boad. and Martin's in , Ranfurly Terrace. An application was received in regard to Mr. ,1. R. Robertson's property in Arkell's Road, questioning the right of the board to insist on the reading requirements which it had specified in the nubdivisional plans, but it was decided to abide by the rigbt3 conferred upon the board by. the Act. SYDNEY'S GREAT GROWTH. YEAR'S BUILDING RECQRP. - fRSOM O'PB OWK '00KRESPCNDENT.J; • , ; *"•' Sydney. July io:? ; The extraordinary development of the metropolitan area of Sydney is reflected in the municipal returns just published. For the year ended June 30. 11.321 new buildings %vere erected, and the cost Was £11,812,068, which is a record, both as regards cost and the actual number of new buildings. The movement in building .operations in the metropolitan area has made a big leap since 1914; when the buildings completed totalled , 9928, >the Cost being £6,829,994., The average was V £698 per new building, in that year • the average last year was £1043. In the city of Sydney itself 401 new' buildings were' erected during . the - financial' year just ended, at an outlay oi. £2,370,354., These operations bring wjthin' their scope, ."the . Greater Sydney area, .• VANCOUVER enterprise, CITY'S BRISK PROGRESS. The most recent survey of th<> building construction field in Vancouver and district, reveals a spring programme which means an expenditure' of well over £3,000,000. There is a healthy growth in all lines of building activity. In addition to houses, apartments, of the port necessitating the construction of new docks, jetties, elevators, terminal stores, and general business premises, there is an extensive programme of waterside I development, the increasing trade facilities aind a bridge over the Second : ■ Narrows. . ' ;. '• • The new Canadian Pacific Railway pier is to-cost altiiiost exactly the same amount as the sum spent on the new Prince's Wharf at Auckland which, in many progressive features and activities, closely resemble the brisk,, optimistic city of [Vancouver. . The harbour authorities have provided for a hotel expenditure of nearly £2,000,000. - ." • >. ::;