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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11

"A start has been made in New ¥ork with the largest block of theatres and broadcasting stations combined ever heard of," said Mr William Scott, chief representative of the R.K.O. Picture Corporation in Australia, who has just returned from Europe and America, to a reporter of the "Dominion." "It soems that Mr John D. Rockefeller, jun., purchased a block on Broadway last venr as n possible site for the lons-proposed new Metropolitan Opcrn Rouse, but when that scheme fell through he cast about for a new idea to utilise this immensely valuable land. Eventually his imagination was caucht bv ft proposal made bv the Rndio Corooration of America,' which is thorounjlilv in ncoord with American ideas of bis business. This was to erect a blo'.k of buildincs. sixty stories in height. The cost of the land alone was £49,000.000. and the whole scheme involve? a canitnl of £100,000.000. This linge building. which will be the largest in the world, will embody five theatres on the around floor with a total accommodation for 19,000 people. There will be one theatre for pictures, one for drama, one for farce, one for high corned v. and one (a symphony at'ditcrium"t for orchestra! concerts, the wh->le to he or.affirmed by Mr S. L. Bothafel whilst the auditorium concert* will he "iven under th« direction of Stokowski. The distinguished conductor of the Philade.lnhia Svmphonv Orchestra. In the hnihlinir above there will f:e no fewer than twouty-Koven radio and television broadcasting stations."

Though pinus insignis is not usually considered n suitable timber for use in houses, Mr C. E. F'oweraker told a reporter on Saturday that, in the Wairau Valley, in Marlborough ho had recentlv seen a six-roomed hone® being liuilt almost entirely from the timber of this tree, which was milled ltd", the spot. Other houses had also I>een pointed out to him as hnviiT* been built of in«iprnis pine. Pome of them biul b*>en roi for t«n yanrs. rnl seemed to be lasting tvcll, having been well painted.