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The HOYTS Group of companies in Australia and New Zealand includes HOYTS Cinemas, a cinema chain, and Val Morgan, which sells advertising on cinema screens and digital billboards. The company was established by dentist Arthur Russell in Melbourne , Victoria in 1908, showing films in a hired hall.
The Woden Town Centre is located in Phillip which is in the district of the Woden Valley. The postcode is 2606. The Woden Town Centre neighbours the suburbs of Lyons from the north west, Chifley directly from the west and Pearce from south west, Curtin from north, Hughes from the north east, Garran directly from the east and O'Malley from south ...
Westfield Woden, formerly Woden Plaza, is a large shopping centre in the Woden Town Centre of Phillip of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The centre comprises four anchor tenants - David Jones , Big W , Coles and Woolworths - and more than 250 other retail, leisure, and dining outlets.
In 1945, the last year of World War II, there was a box office boom and the British Rank Organisation purchased a half share in Greater Union Theatres. During this time Greater Union acquired the rights of ownership of many theatres across the country including what became the Phoenician Club in Broadway, Sydney in 1943, originally owned by McIntyre's Broadway Theatres and established as a ...
In March 1972, the National Capital Development Commission awarded Leighton Contractors a contract to build Woden bus station. [1] It opened on 4 December 1972. [2] [3] On 6 December 1982, an upgrade was completed that doubled its size and included heated waiting rooms.
88.9% of the Woden population has received a high school degree, which is 3.6 percentage points lower than the rest of the state. Woden also has a lower-than-average percentage of the population having received college degrees, with only 11.1% of the town's population has received a bachelor’s degree compared to the state average of 30.5%.
[1] Although Woden is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75978; [2] the ZCTA for ZIP Code 75978 had a population of 137 at the 2000 census. [3] Woden is home to a post office, a K-12 school, and a Baptist, Presbyterian, and United Pentecostal church, as well as a volunteer fire department.
The Phillip Pool opened on Saturday 16 October 1971 by the National Capital Development Commission for the new District of Woden Valley at a cost of $300,000. The site was leased to a company called Glencora Pty Ltd in 1979 which as part of the lease submission , planned to build an Olympic size ice rink.