PROGRESS OF AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 3

PROGRESS OF AUCKLAND.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, January 13. Last year there was a large amount of building carried on in and around Auckland, and at the present time contractors have enough work in hand to keep them busy for a good while. Last year tha Auckland City Council alone issued permits which represented over £140,000, to which must be added the two big contracts for the Auckland Harbour Board and the Auckland Railway Station, neither of which came under the jurisdiction o2 the council. The total for the year would'.-, in round figures, be over £260,000. The permits issued from the Auckland eng.it neer’s office include 93 dwellings, of the value of £37,870; four warehouses (£18,852), eight factories (£5889), 11 shops (£8562), nine miscellaneous buildings, (£5730), Technical College (£20,889)/' Spedding’s new block of offices (£15,000)* 60 alterations costing over £SO (£33,873)„< In addition there are the ferry buildings, for the Harbour Board, to cost £55,000* and the post office, the contract for which was £96,000. Among other big works now in progress is the Auckland Town Hall, costing somewhere in the neighbour-, hood of £87,555.