BUILDING ACTIVITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 14

BUILDING ACTIVITY

(To the Sir.—l notice in your columns remarks and reference to the future prospects of the building trade in (Vanganui. Upon information I have received 1 venture to predict that the building trade will show more aclivit.y during the next three months than has been experience'! for many years in Wanganui. Judging by Hie proposed buildings about to be erected and looming in the near future, which will show evidence of the recovery of tlie progress of the town. Wanganui is going to expand very rapidly, and that expansion must extend up the Avenue and along Guyton Street. The business area will in a lew years extend up as far as Dublin Street and alone. | that now busy thoroughfare. A pri- | vate syndicate having purchased the i vacant section in the Avenue next to | Hughes, Allomes and Tarrant, ar. | up-to-date building is to be inime- | diatcly erected there. I understand | that a Wellington firm also intend shortly to erect an up-to-date build ing on the adjoining vacant section. Unfortunately the progress of the town is being hampered by the large blocks occupied by the Methodist Church and the Alexander property, on the other side of the Avenue, h is a pity these properties cannot be rated, thereby making such land toy costly for the owner to allow the land to remain idle. It is up to the directors of such institutions t-. seriously consider the question ot giving room for the expansion of the town. Evidence of this blockage in the Avenue is shown by the factThtu the new business premises are creeping along Guyton Street.— I am, etc., “PROGRESS.” [We understand that the Avenue frontages of the Methodist Churen property have been available for business purposes for some time.—Ed., “Chronicle.”]