Modernising the Opera House
PLANS BEFORE CITY COUNCIL Plans lor proposed alterations and additions to the Opera House have been approved by the City Council’» Opera House committee, and an architect has been instructed to submit a rough sketch of a new exterior for the building and sample seats, and a scheme for the installation of modern theatre and stage lighting. The whole matter will then be considered by the incoming council.
Tho chairman of the committee (Cr. W. B. Tennent) told tho council last night that the plan provided for the entrance being enlarged by taking in the supper room. Upstairs the municipal hall would be taken in to provide a big foyer, with cloak rooms. The seating accommodation would be carried back very considerably, giving 400 more seats, while the roof would be raised, to provide a proper sighting line right back to the back seats. To do away with the pillars certain structural alterations would have to be made, while reinforcing steel girders would be put in to make the structure earth-quake-resisting. The Mayor said that a new building would cost about £65,000, while for an expenditure of about £15,000 the council could bring the present building up-to-date.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 2
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201Modernising the Opera House Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 2
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