FIGURES ALMOST DOUBLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 11

FIGURES ALMOST DOUBLE

YEAR'S BUILDING TRADE MANY BIG UNDERTAKINGS 195 PLL'MITS REPRESENT £116.720 Due in several big undertakings in Ihe town doling the past 12 months the building trade in Gisborne has taken a must decided upward trend, lor although only 1C more permits were issued than in the preceding year, the value represented by the peril its during the financial vear" which ended on March 7>l was almost double that of the 1928-29 period. the total being £116,7£C and £67.y38 respectively A "realor number of permits were issued in the 1927-23 financial year, but the total value, C58.8;)6. was small compared with thai for the period just "Oiled. The value of penults for the erection of dwellings alone during the past year fell short of the figure for all operations in the 1927-28 period In- less than £10:0.

'TIi. j financial year just closed was an erratic one in many respects with regard to the building trade. In August, lor example. 19 permits represented an estimated value of £24,994, whereas 21 permits in June covered operations estimated to cost only £4608 December was the leanest month, only nine permits, to the value of £5302 being issued. In January of this year 12 permits representing a value of 015.761) were issued. bul'Pebruarv and .March were poor months for the trade, the total number of permits for the two months being 21. and the value £7619. During the past financial year the monthly value of permits issued once passed the !.20.Cv3 mark and on four occasions was in excess of £IO.OOO bv a substantial margin, whereas during ilie preceding year the. highest figure for one month was £11.714. The following table shows the position in detail in regard to all building operations in the borough, including additions and alterations, for the last two financial vears : - 1929-20 1928-29 No. of hist. No. of Kst. Permits Value Permits Value £ £

The numbers and values of permits issued in respect to the erection ot dwellings alone during the past imonths are shown in the following table:— , ~ . No. of Est. Permits, Value. £

April ... 19 16,325 35 5,267 AHv 16 4692 17 ll.Aih him- " 21 4608 1 5 550o • ' 24 14.555 7 2289 \„;, ust 19 24.994 22 4561 Sent ember' 16 6705 27 11.714 October ... 26 11.026 2 50o5 November 1? December 9 ,7 cioq January 12 15-766 Febraarv 9 418S lo jrlj March '... 12 5451 14 Totals 195 116.729 185 67.288

April Mav (3 4 4444 M'>9 Juno July August (’> it 1480 ">180 lO.nfi-5 2f>30 72SS September .... October S November .... December • • • • 1 (JOnO 732 January 4 4280 February ■ • • • X 2400 o 1 (>7*) Total • • • • .')() 4!>,07!>