BUILDING IN CITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22332, 1 February 1936, Page 14

BUILDING IN CITY

THE YEAR STARTS WELL NEW DWELLINGS IN DEMAND PERMITS FOR FORTY ISSUED Taking the City Council building; figures for January as an index, the year has started well for the building industry. January is generally regarded as a slack time for building, but in the month*'just closed 120 permits havo been issued of a total value of £75,696. In view of the indication of general prosperity that is given by the demand for new hoi ses it is particularly gratifying that included in the permits aro 40 for dwellings. This is the largest number of dwelling permits recorded in any one month for six years. The figuro of £75,696 for the past month is more than three tunes as largo as the total for January of last year, when the value of the 99 permits issued was £23,383. Nineteen dwellings were included. The December total was £77,647, itnd this was the second largest monthly figure recorded for three years. The dwelling permits that month numbered 28. The largest buildings for which permits were taken out last month were a block of flats, a commercial garage in the city and an addition to a factory. PALMERSTON NORTH PROGRESS BEST MONTH IN SIX YEARS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday Representing a total value of £IB,OOO, some 23 building permits were issued during Januarv. New dwellings account for £5528 of the total, and the largest permit is one of £6OOO for the reconstruction of a theatre. The figures for the month are the highest for January for six years and indicated the steady climb of the building trade back to normal conditions.