Whau flicks: New Lynn’s Delta Theatre 1926-1986
When the Delta Theatre opened in July 1926 the grand opening was advertised in the Saturday edition of New Zealand Herald : Ref: excerpt from the New Zealand Herald, 31 July 1926, page 18. In The History of New Lynn , it was claimed, unusually for the time, that the architect of the Delta Theatre was a woman. However, contemporary newspaper reports on the ‘Leaky Picture House’ vary as to whether Miss Mitchell was the building contractor or the architect . The theatre was closed in 1928 because of subsidence and reopened in 1929, the Auckland Star reported upon its reopening on the 21 May 1929. Ref: Delta Theatre, 1930, New Lynn Print Collection, West Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries.