CITY BUILDING
DECREASE FOR QUARTER MARKED DROP IN MARCH The total value of the build ins permits; issued by the City Council during the first three months of 1940 amounted to £226,242, which is £5411 less than that for the same period last year, when the total was £231,653, a record. Compared with the figures for 1938, this year's total shows a substantial rise, that for the election year standing at £167,296. The March figures show a decrease of £35,000 compared with those for. last March, when the total was £97,191. This month's amount was £62,366. During March, 137 permits were issued, the principal undertakings being a block <.f four Hats, a brick and concrete store, and additions to a school. Figures for the last three JanuaryMarch periods are as follows: — HMO 1039 1038 January .. JE1U0.507 £<>8,035 £37,3*0 February .. 37,30!) (j<>,l'J7 59,0/0 March .. 6:2,300 97,101 70,816 Twenty-one dwellings were included in the permits issued during the month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 12
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