John Arnold<p>_The Evening Post_, 31 October 1924:<br> THE KELBURN KIOSK<br> REVERTING TO CITY<br> In July next the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Kelburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kelburn</span></a> Kiosk, according to the terms of the 21-years’ lease drawn up between the City Council on whose land (a part of the Botanical Gardens Reserve) the kiosk stands, and the Kelburn and Karori Tramway Company, become the property of the council, of the citizens … at the expiration of the period of 21 years from July, 1904.<br> It was laid down in the contract … that the company should within two years of the signing of the document, erect buildings of a value of not less than £1200 [ca. $270,000 in 2024]. Whether the kiosk cost approximately £1200 or more in 1904 he could not say, but very obviously it could not be built for anything like £1200 to-day [ca. $150,000]. Another condition was made that the kiosk should not at any time be used for the purpose of holding public <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/dances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dances</span></a> and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/dancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dancing</span></a> performances, but, though that condition had been evidently considered reasonable then, he doubted whether a contract drawn up in respect of a similar building to-day would be considered reasonable if it included such a clause.…<br><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241031.2.108" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news</span><span class="invisible">papers/EP19241031.2.108</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapersPast</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TeaRooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeaRooms</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BotanicalGardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BotanicalGardens</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SocialNorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNorms</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wellington</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>