NEWS AND NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 1, 23 March 1927, Page 22

NEWS AND NOTES

IN THE BUILDING WORLD Bank business is looking up. By advertisement it is notified that tenders for two new buildings for the Bank of Australasia, at Te Puke and Rotorua, closed to-day. The structures will be in concrete, and will be but the primary step in the expansion of this bank. The era of flats is well in the forefront of construction at the present time, and tenders closed this week for the erection of four residential flats, in brick, in Carlton Gore Road. The drainage of the Edendale district is to be proceeded with by the Mount Albert Borough Council after April 11, the date of the closing of tenders for the construction of the Edendale No. 1 main combined sewer and storm-water culvert, in concrete. The approximate length of the sewer will be 70 chains. The culvert will be 7ft lOin by sft 3in inside, and 7£t 6in by oft, egg shape, outside. The completion recently of the four shops in Khyber Pass, just above

Grafton Road, fills a long-relt want. These shops adjoin another block* which is now given a distinctive appearance by the new block. Although only just completed, the shops are tenanted, and the wants of householders will be assured. The women’s rest room in the reserve in Karangahape Road, near Symonds Street, has just been completed. For many years this need has been an acute one, and its opening will be the means of catering for tired mothers and others who find the bustle of a busy city too much for them.

The penalty for default is £lO. It has been a long time since the by-law requiring houses to be num-

bered has been enforced in Hamilton, with the result that a great many houses have no numbers. It has been decided by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce to request the borough council to rectify this matter, because of the fact that a great deal of inconvenience is caused by the absence The Brisbane City Council has decided that the second bridge across the Brisbane River, in the city reaches, should be of reinforced concrete, of the rainbow arch type, at an estimated cost of £344,370. Under the Shops and Factories Act. the occupier of every shop in Victoria.. Australia, is required, on or before March 14 of each year, to forward a properly filled in registration forhi, with the prescribed fee, to the Chief Inspector of Factories, Melbourne.