BUILDING ACTIVITY
A MARKED REDUCTION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Building permits issued in the larger centres of the Dominion during September show a decrease of 26.3 per cent., as compared with September, 1929. The number of authorisations for new dwellings declined 41 per cent. Taking the figures for the nine months, the total permits arc less by 21.3 per cent., and tHe permits for new dwellings by 29.5 per cent,, than the totals for the corresponding period of the year 1929. The decline in the number for new dwellings was greatest in Auckland (62.4 per cent.), followed by Christchurch (25.8 per cent.), Wellington (20.4 per cent.), and Dunedin (1.8 per cent.). The decrease for the other centres was 14.7 per cent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17409, 6 November 1930, Page 4
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123BUILDING ACTIVITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17409, 6 November 1930, Page 4
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