HUGE SUM SPENT ON AUCKLAND BUILDINGS
NEARLY £1,500,000 FOR YEAR For the calendar year which, municipally ended yesterday, Auckland city proper spent nearly one and a half million pounds in building. The total sum was £1,428,392, which was £178,802 les Ethan in 1926. The comparative figures are as follow: 1927. 1926.
Total for yea** .. £1,428,392 £1,607,194 Yearly the space available for building is decreasing, and there is a fairly marked decrease in housing permits, the number being 471 this year, compared with 607 last year. BIG STRUCTURES Works for which permits were issued in the past quarter include the following:—Assembly hall for the Seddon Memorial Technical Colelge, £10,976; offices for the South British Insurance Company, Shortland Street, £83,500; theatre for John Fuller and Sons, Ltd., Queen Street, £65,000; shops and offices for L. R. Eady and Son, Ltd., Queen Street, £24,000; theatre in Richmond Avenue, £5,550; additional storey for the Northern Roller Milling Company, Fort Street. £25.894.
£ £ January .. •• . 53,203 71,947 February . 112,195 169,248 167,288 128,541 120,831 70,930 155,624 91,056 139,080 August . 99,902 89,028 September .. * . ' 78,142 . 57,113 . 244,733 109,399 December . . .. . . 163,751 152,571
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 26
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181HUGE SUM SPENT ON AUCKLAND BUILDINGS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 26
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