BUILDING IN NEW PLYMOUTH
SLIGHT DEGREASE IN NOVEMBER. FIGURES FOR YEAR STILL AHEAD. A comparatively quiet month for building is shown by the number of permits issued from the borough inspector’s office, New Plymouth, during-November. Not only was there a decrease of £593 in the value of the permits issued, when compared with the corresponding period of 1928, but the total of £7873 is the second smallest for any montpi this year, the figures for February alone being lower. Neither in November, 1929, nor in November, 1928, were any outstanding business ventures launched. Permits for residences totalled nine compared with ten in 1928, and for alterations and additionjs eleven, compared with seven in 1928. Thanks to large increases in the figures for January, July and October, 1929, over those of the same months ■in 1928, the aggregate value of permits issued during the eleven months of the year still exceeds that of the eleven months of 1928, Details are: —
1929 £ 1028 £ January .,.. . 13,403 5198 February ,.,. . 5008 7473 March . 8642 6556 April ....... . 8394 13,030 May ........ . 11,950 20,095 June . 13,227 6163 July . 34,653 7219 August . 14,825 13,461 September . 10,160 15,815 October .... . 22,005 7275 November .... . 7873 8466 Totals Increase, £39,452. . 150,203 110,751
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1929, Page 11
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