Harcourt Park; stage No 1; sketch

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DescriptionPrinted in the ‘Leader’ on April 3, 1984; the Rimutaka Lions had set aside $14 000. They would build it using voluntary labour and the members' craft skills. There would be electricity and lighting. The awning and poles were to be removable. The city Council had approved the project the week before.

This stage had already been used, while not finished, by February 1985.

The sketch was reprinted 82 x 57 mm in the 'Leader' on November 19, 1985.

An arson attack on 29-30 September 1989 left the structure repairable. The December 3, 1997 pictured the president of the Rimutaka Lions, Norm Griffin, in the ruins of the stage, burnt in a fire which he believed was deliberately burnt by vandals. He first knew of the fire when he brought a former president to look at the stage on November 25; the fire had occurred early in the month, and might have been caused by a stray firework.

The replacement, a 'Seismic Sound Stage', opened in December 2001. Last edited by: Don McLeod