Under the shadow of a High Court challenge and public opposition, the local exhibitions industry has one last chance to retain NZ’s biggest venue before it’s handed to overseas moviemakers, Newsroom reveals. Cornwall Park Trust Board’s commercial advisors say they will look to reopen the closed tender process that handed Xytech Studios a four-year lease of the Auckland Showgrounds. Cornwall Park, the Showgrounds and their surrounds were donated by Scottish-born settler Sir John Logan Campbell in 1901, to be preserved for the use and enjoyment of Aucklanders.

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