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Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 723, 9 May 1914, Page 12

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS OF THE CROWN THEATRE COMPANY, LIMITED. CAPITAL - . - - £22,500, IN 22,500 SHARES OF £1 EACH. Of which 15,000 Shares are jiow offered for Subscription on the following terms • 2s 6d per Share on application, 2s 6d per Share on allotment, and the balance in* Calls of not more than 2s 6d per share at intervals of not less than one month. SOLICITORS: MOORHOTJSE, HADFIELD. AND NEWMAN, Wellington. BANKERS: NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, Wellington BROKERS: - WILLIAM H. TURNBULL & CO., Panama-street, Wellington. THE General Objects of the Company are to acquire a valuable corner site having a" frontage to Molesworth-street, Wellington City, of 133 ft 7in bv73ft 7m to Sydney-street, and to erect thereon an up-to-date Picture Theatre with a commodious and modern Concert Hall, and to carry on the business o£ exhibiting moving pictures and utilising the building for Concerts, Meetings ' Dancing, and other purposes.. &^T The Picture Theatre will seat about 1000 persons, and the Concert Hall willseat about 750 persons. The building will be of two floors, and will contain enlarge and commodious refreshment room, large supper room, two shops cloak rooms, sitting-out rooms, committee rooms, lavatories, etc. A spacious balcony will extend along the whole Moles worth-street frontage, overlooking Parliamentary. Grounds. ,The Concert Chamber will have a very large and tro-to-date-stage, and will be specially suitable for concerts, meetings dancing etc All other picture theatres in Wellington are situated south of the "Evenine Post" Office, so that the proposed building will be admirably located to cater for a very extensive and populous area. It is right on the Molesworth-street and-Lambton-quay tramlines. The Karon, Tinakori-road, Wadestown and Northland trams pass the door. In addition it will serve Wellington-terrace the wholeof Thorndon, and the suburbs along the Manawatu and Wairarapa railwav lines Being a corner site and particularly well situated, immediately opposite theevergreen and beautiful grounds of the Parliamentary Buildings, it can never beshut in nor be at a disadvantage as regards light and prominence m The inevitable growth and prosperity of Wellington City must make this finesite an asset of ever-increasing value to the shareholders MANAGEMENT.—The Directors are in touch with the leading film suppliers, and special care will be exercised i n the selection of high-class programmes The Company has been fortunate in securing the services of a well-known-and successful Manager, who has had many years' managerial experience it* picture theatres. Receipts are estimated on a very conservative basis, and after making ar liberal allowance for expenditure, a very handsome nrofit is shown on the amount of capital considered necessary. Details-of estimated annual receipts and exnen diture may be inspected at the office of the Brokers at any time durino- business hours. A large 'number of Shares have already been applied for, and the Companv's flotation is assured. ■. * J For full particulars, prospectuses, aonlv to WILLIAM H." TTTRNBTJLL AND CO., Telegraphic Address—"Estate," Wellington. Panama-street.

Congratulations .to Mr. Robert Fletcher upon his re-election as Chairman of the_ Harbour Board. Everyone seems delighted, and it certainly would have been a stroke of ill-luck if this port had lost the services of so shrewd and capable a chairman. It was a close call, though, for there seems to have been a movement in some quarters! to shift him, and lots had to be cast to decide the tie. But "the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft" must have been watching that pea. Vive Roberto. Harkness is a good fellow, but his turn will come later. # * * * The Pathephone will play and sing—do anything that any other similar machine will do, but there's this difference: Whereas other instruments reproduce by means of a hard, scratchy needle, the Pathephone haß a smooth-running, polished' sapphire point. Therefore its tone must be richer, sweeter and clearer,