BUILDING PERMITS
OTAHUHU INCREASE OVER £54,000 LAST YEAR An increase in the value of buildings erected in Otnhuliu during the past year was reported at the Otahuhu Borough Council meeting last night bv the engineer. His report stated that 150 permits, including 59 new houses and additions to 57 others, had been issued, the total valuation being £'54,(347. The value of the new houses was £.'35,110. The report stated that tint figures did not include the State scheme houses erected on St urges Instate, as no permits were taken out in resnect of them. In the previous year the total valuation of the building permits was' £47,657. The report stated that, although the number of permits had been reduced in the last year, the value (.f the buildings bad increased. Advice was received from the Post and Telegraph Department that it proposed to lay an underground telephone cable between the Monument and Tamaki Bridge at an early date and a request was made to the council to defer any concrete footpath construction until this work was completed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 7
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