AMUSEMENT PIER AT COOGEE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18148, 11 August 1924, Page 14

AMUSEMENT PIER AT COOGEE.

♦ Coogce, Sydney's popular seaside resort, is to have an amusement pier, with a restaurant, theatre, and palais de dan&e. The lease is for 28 years, and the rent to bo paid by the company is £SOO, to start as soon the pier is open to the public. The pier is to be completed within two yeara and six months, and, by agreement, must not cost less than £156,000. The admission lee is not to exceed sixpence lor aau.t-,, and threepence for children. There is niso a clause in the agreement which compels the Randwick Council to devote the difference between the Bum tiiey must pay to the Government and- what they receive from the coui-pa.ii/, which amounts to £l9O, to the beautilying and improvement of Coogee beach, and aiso to provide a shirk-proof swimming enclosure. l'he pier will be 900 feet long, and is the first amusement pier on English Unas to be constiucted in Australia. At the shoreward end there will be a resteaira-nt, with seating accommodation for 400 diners, while at the seaward ehd there will be a. theatre seating 1300 people, ar.d also a dancing pavLion. Around the theatre there will be shop 3, and down the centre of the pier there will be a number ■o£ wind shields.. Fishing will be allowed, and facilities provided.*for the sport. Tb? estimated oeet of the structure ia *170.000. ,