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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16494, 3 August 1921, Page 4

The plans of the proposed municipal administrative block and concert chain- n her to be erected on the Manchester p Street site were shown to a reporter , by the Mayor yesterday. TL; whole pf tlie JManchester Street frontage is to bo occupied with the administrative. block and supplementary offices, and tho concert chamber will occupy the hack portion, the main entrance to the ° concert chamber being from the Wor- 11 cester Street frontage, which is a chain n wide. The minimum seating accom- h modation in the concert chamber will ; li bo for 2700 people. The ballroom will ! li be arranged so that it can be used for u concerts, and attached to it. as separ- | w ate units, will he a lounge room and a ( n large supper room, capable of seating I Cl from 500 to 600 people, which could also j be used as a smaller hall whenever re- I quired. A comprehensive kitchen will " also be provided, which may be used as an instruction kitchen by teachers of ooolving. A large set of offices is also t provided for, which, in the opinion of 11 the architects, should return an annual n rental to the City Council of about b £1250. For tlie offices and supper tl room it i? proposed to utilise the pre- j scut foundations. • a