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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 4

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''Builder" invites contributions from readers on any matters of interest which they might like to propose. Correspondence on various subjects pertaining to building will also be accepted. -

The City Council's permit Look contains few entries for December, the month to date being particularly quiet. Messrs J. and W. Jamicsoti have taken out a permit for additions to premises at tho corner of Colombo and Tuam streets, owned by the JH. Hall estate. Mew shop fronts aro to be made, and a two-storey brick and concrete building will be erected at tlie rear. By treating one of the classrooms of tho iSeddon Memorial Technical College with sound-proof material, it is hoped to eliminate the noise from traffic) in Wellesley street, Auckland, which is stated to interfere with the work of the pupils. It was decided at a meeting of the collego governors to havo one of the present classrooms adapted for this purpose as an experiment.

In the period from April Ist to November 30th, Heathcoto County Council issued 28 permits for shops and houses (Avon 7, Bromloy Hillsborough 6, Valley 3, Cashmero 6, Mt. Pleasant 4); 13 for garages (Avon 1, Hillsborough 5, Valley 3, Cashmere 2, Mount Pleasant 2); and 32 for alterations and additions (Avon 4, Bromlov 1, Hillsboi-ough 7, Valley 11, Cashmero 7, Mount Pleasant -.)

Attention to the situation of the public library in Harrison street, Brooklyn, Wellington, was drawn in the annual report of the Brooklyn Municipal Electors' Association. ''The building, which is cramped for space and dingy, has long since out-lived its usefulness," the report stated. "A more commodious building, on a central site is long overdue, and it is recommended that the matter be placed before the Libraries Coramitteo immediately."

A fair number of sales of properties reported by Auckland land agents indicates that more interest is being manifested in the market there, than has been the case for some time. Among the sales reported are 21 residences and 30 building sections, which would seem to indicate that homeseekers particularly are taking advantage of the present opportunity to acquire homes and sites under the most favourable conditions. The notifications of sales made include a city warehouse, 21 residences, 10 farms ot an aggregate acreage of approximately 1040 acres, three businesses, 16 building sections, and 14 seaside and bush sections, a total of 65. The _ sales naturally represent only a portion ot those that have actually taken place. Spring business in the building trade in Wellington is slow in setting in, states the "New Zealand Decorator. By the beginning of November orders, as a rule, are coming in steadily for external house-painting and internal decorating jobs, but enquiries for the smaller housework are W no means as plentiful as is customary at this turio of the year. This is in keeping with the tendency for large building contracts to bo deferred pending some improvement in the general trading outlook. There are few large works m hand in the city area at present. Perhaps the two largest jobs in the district are the Wellington Commercial Travellers' Association building m Customhouse Quay, and the new HtPatrick's College at The Bainting on both these contracts is | n ie hands of Messrs Hill and Jackson, who also have the glazing for the Commercial Travellers' * Association building. Very few large building Works are in prospect, and unless the architects' hoards produce more such jobs in the next month or two the outlook for the winter months next year will be anything but promising.