AUCKLAND’S “CIVIC THEATRE”
BUILDING TO COST £250,000 COMMENCED Dominion Special Service. Auckland, April 26. As a fountain pen passed from hand to baud in a group of men at the Grand Hotel this morning a £250,000 construction deal was signed and settled finally. It was a contract for Auckland's newest theatre —The Civic. The parties concerned are the Civic Theatres, Ltd., the Super-Construction Company of Australia, Ltd., and the Fletcher Construction Corqpany. Ltd. Simultaneously with the signing of the documents came word that the construction of the huge building had been begun in Civic Square. Work on the foundations was put under way this morning. The two big construction firms are co-operating ii. the contract as it is the aim of the organisation to complete the theatre by Christmas. ■ On the ground floor will be 20Sshops. In all.-30.000 yards of earth have been excavated from the theatre site. A total of 3,500,000 bricks will be required and an order for 2,000.000 has already been placed. One thousand tons of concrete, 500 tons of steel, and 90,000 feet of timber, will be used. Among other items on huge orders to be placed are 300 tons of fibrous plaster. and £50.000 in furnishings.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 180, 27 April 1929, Page 10
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