MORE BUILDING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22523, 14 September 1936, Page 11

MORE BUILDING

STEADY IMPROVEMENT MANY NEW HOMES 'ERECTED FIGURES FOR DOMINION Building activity throughout the Dominion continues to show improvement, judging by the latest figures published in the Abstract of Statistics relating to the building permits issued in the larger towns. In particular a continued improvement in the building of dwellings is indicated by the permit statistics for recent months. The value of building represented by permits issued in the month of July was £531,382, an increase of '£47,576, or 9.5 per cent over the total in June, and an increase of 43.4 per cent over the total in July of last year. Permits issued for the erection of new dwellings in July were 344 in number, as compared with 340 in June. This is the fifth month in succession in which there has been an increase in the number of permits issued for new dwellings, while the total number of permits issued for this purpose during the first seven months of the year was 2,092, as compared with 1535 during the same period last year. The value represented by permits for now dwellings during the seven months was £1,704,847, an increase of 45.4 per cent over the total in the same period of last year. Taking all building permits into consideration the comparative values were: —Seven months, 1935, £2,405,432; seven months, 1936, £3,316,434; increase, 37.9 per cent. During July 87 new dwellings, of a total value of £71,240, were erected in the Auckland urban area, while the value of all new buildings was £99,122.