BUILDING INCREASE
GISBORNE FIGURES
VALUE £8268 HIGHER
FIVE MONTHS’ PERMITS
During the year to date, permits' issued by the Gisborne Borough Council were for work estimated to be worth £29,841, or £8261 more than during the first five months of last year.
The numbers oi' permits, however, show an increase of only one this year. Permits for the erection of dwellings totalled 19, compared with 20 during the first five months of last year, but the total value has increased from .1114,411 to £15.290. Last month was a fairly slack one for the issue of permits for dwellings, only two being authorised, compared with six in April. The total numbers of permits issued for all building purposes and also for dwellings are shown in the following table, together with estimated cost of construction month by month : ALL BUILDINGS
No. 1937 Value No. 1936 Value January ... .15 £ 5,251 9 Q 3,649 February ... 21 5.757 15 3,056 March ... 14 6.5CO 17 4.188 April ... 17 5.245 21 4.795 .May ... 17 7,088 21 5,885 84 29,841 87, 21.573 DWELLINGS 197.7 No. Value No. 1936 Value X' January r> 2.309 4 TJ 3.105 February 5 3.759 4 2,275 March 3 2,549 4 2,952 April ..." () 4.846 5 3,887 -May 2 1.827 3 2,192 19 15,290 20 14,411
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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211BUILDING INCREASE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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