BOOM IN AUCKLAND BUILDING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 4

BOOM IN AUCKLAND BUILDING.

THE TOTAL TOPS J51,4C0,000. \ (By'Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) , . Auckland, December 31. Builders, have been, so busy in Aucki land that, for some time, it has been dtf? ficult to get labour, and tendering fens limits have had to *be extended." Here arc a:few of the big public buildings in hand or completed Town Hall, .£121,000j new Post Office, ,£100,000; new ferry build. in»s, .£55,179; new electric power station, £31,000.; new Technical College, £25,000; new Harbour Board sheds, €£21,322? Sacred Heart Convent, Kemuera, £10,000; Fullers' Theatre, Newton, £10,000. With some lesser additions to. the list tho totajL is £390,000. ■ . . . , Public buildings in contemplation includo tho new University £100,000, new Eailway Station £100,000, Hospital Board's building: programme £57,700, new Dilworth Institute, Mount Hobson, £25.-i ■ 000, new bath buildings, Karangaliaptj Eoad, £20,000, Municipal Depot, Free.' man's Bay, £20,000, now coal stores £16, i. 000, and new Magistrate's Courthousa £12,000. The total (including lesser build, ings) is about £321,000. . A rough list of tho big private city prei mise.s for which contracts have beeriaet; or which have recently been completed, gives a total of about £200,000. It is estimated that, in the residential parts o! . the city and suburbs, about 1000 houses (at a cost of about £500,000) have been erected during the year, and everything points to the 1910 figures being maintained, if not exceeded, in 1911.