BOOM IN AUCKLAND BUILDING.
THE TOTAL TOPS £1,400,000
Builders have been so busy in Auckland that, for some time, it has been difficult to get labor, and tendering time limits have had to be extended. _ Here are a few of the big public buildings in hand or completed:—Town Hall, £121,000; New Post Office £100,000; new ferry buildings, £55,179; new electricpower station, £31,000; New Technical College, £25,000; new Harbor Board sheds? £21.322; Sacred Heart -Convent, Eemuera, £16,000; Puller's Theatre, Newton, £IO,OOO. With some lesser additions to the list the total is £390,oco. , . ~ Public buildings in contemplation include the new University £IOO,OOO, new Railway Station, £IOO,OOO, Hospital Board’s building programme, £57, 700, new Dilworth Institute. Mount Hobson, £25 000 now bath buildings, Karangahape Road, £20,000, Municipal Depot. Freeman’s Bay, £20,000. new coal stores £16,000, and new Magistrates Courthouse £12,000. The total (including lesser buildings) is about £321,000. A rough list of the big private city premises for which contracts* have been let, or which have recently been completed, caves a total of about £200,000. It is estimated that, in the residential parts of the city and! suburbs, about 1000 houses (at a cost of about £500,000) have been erected during the year, and everything points to the 1910 1 figures being'maintained, if not exceeded, m 1911. 5
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3112, 7 January 1911, Page 7
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215BOOM IN AUCKLAND BUILDING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3112, 7 January 1911, Page 7
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