AUCKLAND AMUSEMENT PARK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 12

AUCKLAND AMUSEMENT PARK

CHANGE OF VENUE SUGGESTED In spite of its population of 200,000. j Auckland cannot support an enter- | tainment enterprise such as the Auck- | land Amusement Park permanently, j stated the chairman of directors, Mr. ! Henry Hayward, at the annual meeti ing of shareholders in the company, ! held yesterday. The directors had now ! decided to endeavour to transfer the properties of the company to a new I venue, preferably in Australia. "Shareholders are well acquainted ; with the fact that the season ex perij enced last year was a very unrein tini erative one,” said the chairman. The ! year had shown a loss of £3,577. That j NV:IS expected, particularly by him- | self. It was hoped that the company ! would have better luck, but. person- ' a 9y. be was not sanguine of the n - ; suits in Auckland. - Shareholders were well aware of the i handicap of ground rent and heavy ; rates, which made it difficult for the I company to make a profit. Xcgotiai tions with the Harbour Board upon ; the question of rent stood adjourned : and in the event of the successful I transfer of the properties elsewhere it j would be a difficult matter to arrange j a fair and equitable agreement with i the board for the release of a portion ! of tlie rent for the next two vears. Tlie coming season was designed fur right weeks. The park would be opened a week or ten days before j hristmas and would continue to run • until the end of January or the first | week in February, depending upon how I it was patronised. Messrs. B. E. Kennings and G. \\\ May hi li were elected to the board of ; directors in the place of Messrs. A. 1; McKenzie and A. Burt. \ hn cl id not ' rc-olcetio Mi w B whs reappoint'd auditor.