BUILDING PERMITS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 July 1917, Page 3

BUILDING PERMITS.

TO THE EDITOR

Sir, —Allow me space for a few remarks on last Town Board meeting. Com. Graham objected to my having a right to erect a building adjacent to the main street, and went so far as to say: "It was a disgrace that buildings of this class should be erected." Com, Stewart said that before granting permits the builder should state the price of the building to be erected. I should like to know how many townsmen have given a price or cost of building, or am I selected as the first one to be victimised ? If this is one of the by-laws, it may be used or it may be abused just as we happen to elect members. We may elect men with very small minds who may be drawbacks to the progress of the town. I should like to know what kind of a building those two members would require for a timber shed. I would further draw their attention to buildings in Auckland in the past and present in the timber trade. A gentleman had for some years a timber shed in Custom Street about where John Burns and Co. now have a large store. The City C ouncillors, like business men, allowed the industry to be carried on in a very shabby building, for they, saw that all industries in their infancy must start from small affairs and climb up to greater. ' My building can be removed at any time there is a show for a better one. I must again draw those two gentlemen's attention to a remark by a late Commissioner, Mr Elliott, who said that until rates were reduced in Helensville by further industries, which would be the cause of more buildings being erected, there would be but little chance for men with capital starting to build. In a nut shell, small businesses must precede large ones. Those two Commissioners had better study out the problem and perhaps they may then have a better idea of what is required.—l am, I.:"McLeod. Central House, Helensville. For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/6,2/6 Mr Lloyd George states that there is enough food in Britain tp last throughout this year and next and that starvation is Impossible. An exchange tells how a provincial church, at which the 'congregation has been growing less and less every Sunday for some time, was crowded long before the time for commencing the service. The minister was evidently adopting the Government's idea that sermons should ; be more practical and topical in these days, for the subject announced which ! had attracted such wonderful numbers • was " Three Days in a Submarine." The expectant congregation was treated to a wonderful discourse, but came away sadder and wiser men after hearing a ; | sermon on Jonah.