NEWS AND NOTES
Lunedin is poorly served In the matter of up-to-date theatres, and the recent announcement to the effect that a company was considering the erection of a new picture house and cabaret in the Octagon aroused considerable interest. The plans have been prepared by Mr. L. G. Mowat, and although the company does not appear to have been actually floated, your correspondent is informed that there is every possibility that the necessary capital will be forthcoming when matters are finalised. * * * Progress on a number of big steel frame buildings in Wellington City is being retarded, and in some cases has been suspended temporarily, pending the arrival from England of supplies of steel which have been delayed as a result of the coal strike last year. Just how seriously that industrial upheaval has affected the iron industry at Home may not be realised properly at this distance, but it is brought home to one by information recently sent out by mail by a well-known Wellington building contractor, who is at present on a visit to the Old Country. He has forwarded a circular to his head office, which shows that whereas there were 237 blast furnaces in operation before the strike, in November, at the height of the trouble, only four were working.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 10
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