Wednesday 13th May: Another cold day with more showers. We schooled in the morning and then popped into town to the library in the afternoon. At 4pm Peter and Jonathan went to Keas and Edward and I sat in the back room and worked on his Cub badges.
Tea was some homemade sausages which were yummy.
The photo is of a building just off the main street called Quinns Arcade. It was built in 1906 using 300,000 bricks from a local place called Makikihi and was the first indoor shopping centre in NZ. It spans between two roads and has a glass dome roof. However it wasn't successful and was converted to a picture theatre in 1918. It had 175 seats in the dress circle and 550 in the stalls. Unfortunately it was badly affected by a fire in 1955 and since then has been used as a storage building. However, a community group has just bought it up and is going to restore it to its former glory. The black and white picture shows it in its previous glory.
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