BUILDING ACTIVITY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2971, 8 January 1917, Page 5

BUILDING ACTIVITY

i WELLINGTON AND SUBURBS. . Tho estimated valuo of works for which permits were issued by tho City Engineer's Department last year was £350,132. For tho twelve months ending March 31 in the years stated , "the figures wore as follow:—1914, £258,801; 1915, £256,313; 1916, £306,525. Tho district expenditure is shown in. the following table:— March 31, March 31, Dec.3l, 1915. 1916. 1916. Distriot. ' £ £~ £ City 130,860 139,653 136,000 Melrose 111,751 158,023 188,929 Northland ... 5,640 2,969 5,148 Wadestown 8,062 5,880 20,055 The number of permits issued in each district for 1916 -was as follows, with the number of dwellings, business premises, additions, and alterations' — Additions Business and Dwell- pre- alter- Perings. mises. ations. niits. City 31 15 185 229 Melrose 327 3 108 414 Wadestown ..'. 17 — 7 24 Northland 9 — 5 14 In some cases one permit covered two or more buildings. Under the general heading of business premises in- the city (strictly other than dwellings) are included 11 business premises proper, a church, two picture theatres, and an orphanage. Permits were issued for two new pieturo houses, for alterations to and for alterations to another building which was converted into a theatre. Another theatre was completed during the year. Among the principal works for which permits were issued during the year wore the following:—Factory, /Dixon Street*for L. and J. W. Blake;' alterations, Willis Street, Shortt's Theatre; alterations, Riddiford Street, Our Theatre; store, Hutt Road. A. S. Paterson and Co.; warehouse, Inglewood Place, Clarkson and Company; private hotel, Plimmer's Avenue, Plinimer's Steps Co.; church and schoolroom, Lome Street and Cambridge Terrace, Congregational Church; additional story,. Tborndon Quay, .Abraham and Williams; picture theatre, Courtenay Place, J. J. Williamson; school, Wadestown, Education Board; additions, Willeston Street, Ross and Glendining; cheese store. Waterloo Qnay, Harbour Board; dwelling, Bowen Street, A. H. Turnbull; workshop, Home Street, Doyle Bros.; orphanage, Morton Street, Presbyterian Church.Trustees; picture theatre, Cuba Street, Queen's Theatre, Company. In addition, work has been in progress on a number of buildings for which the permits were issued prior to last year, and which are, therefore, not included in the total. Among these ae the police stations in Taranaki Street and Johnston Street, tho Midland Hotel on Lambton Quay, the Crown Theatre, A. E. Preston's cool store in Taranaki Street, the big addition to the Government Printing Office, and the tramway sheds at Lyall Bay. In Wadestown there has been almost Jour times as much money spent, or proposed to-, bo snent, in Northland a great incrpase, and in 3lelroso (which includes Kelhurn) an increase of nbont £30,000. There has been a small decrease in tho city. t