GREATER AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 6

GREATER AUCKLAND

BUILDING IN SUBURN OVER £1,000,000 FOR W The continued expansion mt growth of the 14 suburbs neant the city of Auckland is shomli the returns issued for 1927, Mb ing an interesting feature oMh development of the districts, THERE was a total of £2,588J* -*- building permits issued for I citv and suburbs during the past]* and of that £1,159,899 was fori suburbs. Once again Mount Ab heads the list in building actMl and is followed by One Tree H Mount Eden, which recently 01 fifth on the list. Mount Roskill I Onehunga. The value of the permits ten and the number and value of ) mits for new dwellings are as I low: —■

Total « value of Dwelling din*

Total . . . £1,159,899 1,175 £»» An estimate only of the returns New Lynn have been made owill the fact that the December Bje were not available. Although large, the figures shoi decrease in activity as compared s 1926. In the last nine months that year 1,114 permits for dwell were issued of a total value £953,201. The total value of building permits in the last l months of 1926 was £1,205,606, Is in excess of those issued for the wi of last year. Among all the suburbs NewWß is the only one in which dwol do not account for the greater 1 of the building activity. In manj the suburbs dwellings account four-fifths of the total value. As usual the most costly hoaste to Devonport, the average being fax short of £I,OOO. On the ol hand the opposite extreme n* Birkhenhead, with an average of < siderably less than £SOO a house. - - - 1

permits. permits. pe» Mount Albert . £. 176,760 178 141, One Tree Hill 144,828 134 111, Mount Eden . • 132,677 3 07 ,»*• Mount Roskill . 129,000 130 Onehuriga . . 122,075 136 Avondale . • . 90,145 125 £ Takapuna • . • 81,028 * Devonport . . . 54,624 £ New Lynn . . 53,979 41 52,203 4% 48,893 ft Birkenhead . • 29,389 59 ft1 Ellerslie . . • • 25,275 Northcote . • . 19,023 15