TE ARO THEATRE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5014, 19 April 1877, Page 2

TE ARO THEATRE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —I have read with much pleasure the letter in to-day’s issue sigued “ Common Sense,” but I think my friend has in his anxiety about our mutual investment in the Public Hall Company taken rather a gloomy view of the results of the completion of this new concern. Let him take heart of grace. Does he really think that any theatrical company in their senses would ever dream of engaging the Te Aro Theatre, no matter if it is to be larger in every respect, admirably designed, well fitted up with every regard to comfort and convenience, and to be the best theatre in the colony, while they could have at their disposal our magnificent edifice with its chaste and noble design, its elegant and convenient dress-circle, stalls, and pit, the large stage with its spleudfd fittings and appointments so constantly renewed? Ko, my friend, there is no fear of any theatrical manager going to that thickly-populated Te Aro while he can remain in our sweet-smelling paradise, Lamfa-ton-quay. The idea is preposterous. Why, “Common Sense” might as well think that these “pushing on” promoters would dispense with our this Company iu their lighting arrangements, and light their new premises with one of these horrid Yankee inventions which enables every householder to manufacture the gas required for his own house on his own premises—and then what would become of our 15 per cent interest. The very idea makes me shiver. There is also another point of view very properly pointed out by my friend. What business has any brewer to take us out of our old and sensible ways of giving £5 and £6 per foot for land, and run up the price of land to £SO and £IOO per foot, and make a lot of new people come into the place and alter it out of knowledge ? However, I suppose these new identities will go on and push the plan up till it grows into one of those great big cities made, up of churches, hotels, and theatres. This X am afraid will be the result of their Blow.