AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 7, 17 August 1910, Page 5

AUCKLAND.

No Coal at Cambridge. A coal famine exists in Cambridge; many people are without coal. Not a pound of coal can be obtained, none having arrived at the station for upwards of a week, though it has been on order for a considerable time, and invoices have been received. Some blame the colliery proprietors, and others the Railway Department, stating that it gets shunted at Frankton. If matters are not mended at once, Cambridge inhabitants will be petitioning the Government to take over Iluntly and Taupiri Mines, and work them by the State. Fortunately, a fair supply’ of wood ie available, or there would be great distress. Auckland's Progress None who travel upon and down and to and fro but exclaim upon the haste with which Auckland is progressing in population, and the substantial evidences of increasing prosperity, every fresh time their eyes light »}>on her. It is apparent to Aucklanders themselves, but is yet clearer to the discriminating sight of the occasional visitor, who now has to mingle his exclamations of pleasure at her manifold beauties with genuine tribute to her growth and commercial progress. Appearances are sometimes deceptive, and vague say-sos are often but an excuse for passing idle intervals, and in quitting ourselves of little imaginative flights; but facts speak without compromise, and figures must not show in cold print without the backing of records. In this respect the city by the Wait emat a can well take pride, for no better proof of our increasing wealth and progress could be advanced than the record of our leap in capital values during the past twelve months, a leap which reaches the really’ astounding total of nearly £2,000,000 for Auckland City and suburbs, as shown by official compilations. Not less gratifying is it to note the activity which is evidenced on all sides in the erection of buildings, both public and private, the former class in course of building amounting to no less a total than £388,399. and including the new Town Hall, new post office, ferry buildings, electric power station, technical college, and a number of other constructions of more or less magnitude. Among the public buildings in contemplation. also. are several of big importance, including a new university and railway station, the list of probables running into an expenditure of between £300.000 and £400.000. As a concrete indication of the immense strides which the community is making in the matter of values, especially in some of the outer rings of suburbs—Mt. Eden, Mt. Albert, and Taka puna being together responsible for an increase of over half a million in the year—the following table of figures will be of general interest: —

Capital Value. Capital Value. District I levonport 1910. £979.172 IfM >9. £926.985 Increase. £52.187 Birkenhead 276.121 260.816 15.305 Ci tv 10.419.236 10.1 17.457 2 < 1.4 ill Parnell 758.721 750,271 8.450 Newmarket 408.026 391.521 16.5< >5 Grev Lynn 860.127 807.017 , ,3 1 1o Onehunga G 17.677 510.864 136.813 Arch Dill 155.328 152.660 2.668 Eden Terrace 246.259 236,408 9,851 Nort heote 155.248 150.258 4,990 Pt. Chevalier 176.885 141 >.231 > 6.6. >5 Mount Albert 942.172 617.061 325 111 A vol id ale 2614.105 251.240 8,865 Mount Roskill ' J8 4.1 >• >9 378,160 9.499 Mount Eden 1 .512.383 1,018.388 523.995 Epsom . . . 621.068 . >8 4 ,8.»3 33.21 •> One-tree Hill 1 tit*. 4 t>.» 4 24.144 42,♦» 19 Remuera . 1 .299.458 1.2:10.758 6.8,700 Tama k I . . 185,320 183.305 2.015 Paninure *’3 «**O 23 4 20 Mt. Wellington 176.497 173.917 2,580 Ellerslie . . 187.398 ISO.’. >98 6,4<><) Drake! . .. 12.982 12.982 — Takapuna 444.196 ’■’T . » *7 216,669 Otahuhu . 300,866 195.783 105.083 Totals £21 ’,233,387 £20,310,323 £1.923,064