Early Canterbury Indoor cricket pavillion

Trawling through paperspast on the NZ National Library website, i discovered that my GGG Uncle William LODGE [1850-1913, son of Rosannah LODGE and stepson of Thomas Seth LODGE] had an indoor cricket pavillion built in Christchurch. This was beside the then Collin's Hotel [later to become The Occidental Hotel].

As far as i'm aware this would have been Christchurch's first indoor cricket facility as the pavillion at Lancaster Park was in the planning stages when this one was commenced in 1882.

The photo below is c1889 - Cricket pavillion under arrow

Thanks to Mr CH for the photo!

Paperspast news items relating to the building:

The Star, 21 March 1882:

http://tinyurl.com/building-commenced

[about 2/3rd's way down column]

The Star, 1 June 1882:

"The Cricket pavilion [sic] in front also escaped serious injury owing chiefly to its iron roof and brickwork corners."

http://tinyurl.com/1882-fire