No specific information about the Hawera Drill Hall

Wooden hall at 32 Ridgway Street, Whanganui. Built 1895 for the International Order of Odd Fellows (also known as Manchester Unity Friendly Society) by HT “Tommy” Johns, a builder-architect. Used as the lodge meeting rooms and as a local theatre venue. Building in existence in 2019.

The first Oddfellows hall in Whanganui was built in 1865 and once the 1895 hall was opened, the old hall was renamed the Lyceum Theatre, later Empress Theatre, and was demolished in 1916.

Abbott's Opera House (Auckland, N.Z.), Fullers' Opera House (Auckland, N.Z.)
Built in 1882, and first opened on 23 May 1882. In 1897 had a number of alterations. The entrances to the stalls and dress circle were on Wellesley Street, and the principal stage entrances on Elliot Street. Belonged to the estate of Mr H N Abbott. Leased by John Fuller. Held first screening of motion pictures in New Zealand. Destroyed by fire on 3 Dec 1926. Smith & Caughey's building later erected on the same site.

The current Theatre Royal is the third theatre of its name on Gloucester Street. The first theatre, built in 1861, was on a site across the road from the current Theatre Royal. It was originally called the Canterbury Music Hall. That building was replaced by a newer theatre on the same site in 1876. Five years after the new theatre was completed it was renamed the Theatre Royal. When the current theatre was built in 1908 the old theatre across the road was sold to The Press, which owned it up until the Canterbury earthquakes.

The first borough council offices in Oamaru were in a wooden building on the south side of the Thames Street Bridge, occupied since the 1860s, but by the turn of the century were considered too small for hosting civic events, as well as being "old and unsightly". The only public hall in Oamaru, the Theatre Royal, had been lost to redevelopment which made the situation more urgent.

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Built prior to 1877 as a stone store, very little of the original structure remains. It opened as a theatre on 16 July I877. In 1911 the present auditorium, fly tower and dressing rooms were added.

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