BIG THEATRE CONTRACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 632, 8 April 1929, Page 14

BIG THEATRE CONTRACT

“CIVIC’S” UNIQUE DESIGN ARCHITECT VISITS AUCKLAND Carrying two bulky rolls of plans, Mr. Charles Bohringer, architect for the new Thomas O’Brien theatre in the Civic Square, arrived in Auckland this morning on the Niagara. j BOHRINGER, who is the prin- j cipal of a Sydney firm specialis- i ing in designing the latest type of j | atmospheric theatre, will remain here j I until the contract for the building of j | the Civic Theatre has been let. ; Travelling with Mr. Bohringer was j j Ml*. James Fletcher, of the Fletcher • } Construction Company, who has been j j spending a few days in Australia and j \ who is interested in the forthcoming j : tenders. Mr. Stirling Rogers, of Super : Construction Company. Ltd.. Sydney, i was also among the Niagara’s passengers. He intends to remain in Auckland until the contract has been let. “The theatre will be about a £200,000 job,” said Mr. Bohringer, who showed a Sun man a book of magnificent drawings, illustrating in colour the interior design of the theatre. “The design is unique and it will be up-to-date in every particular.” The work of excavating for the I foundations of the theatre is now rap- j idly approaching completion, and tend- j ers for the building will be called at an early date.