Euilding Costs

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XLIX, Issue 9591, 22 August 1949, Page 3

Euilding Costs

When a statement was made at the Hamilton sitting of he Licensing Control Commission last Wednesday that a builder had roughly estimated the cost of erecting a modern hotel at £IOOO per room, counsel for one of the hotel-owning companies immediately ssked for details, but these were not forthcoming, nor was the name of the builder. The chairman of the commission, Mr A. M. Gculding, suggested that the man be referred to as “Mr X’’ and the hearing proceeded.

Bid of £IOOO Secures Car Curiosity, or the attraction of big money, took more than 100 people • into a Wellington auctioneer’sri'oms last Friday to see four men bid for a 1940 flve-seater Packard limousine. Late-comers were forced to jostle each other on tip-toe almost across the pavement as the| auctioneer extolling the virtues of the car before at last lifting his hammer. Bidding started at £SOO, went briskly by hundreds, fifties ( and twenty-fives to £925, and then j slowed to a sedate contest of tens

and fives till the hammer made a final downward sweep at £IOOO.