Two halves make a hall.
The temporary replacement for the earthquake-prone Luggate community hall arrived on separate trucks from Christchurch yesterday and was transferred to its new home on the community reserve next to the Luggate tennis courts.
Naylor Love contracts manager Matt Spooner said once the two halves were on the wooden pile foundations, the process to ''stitch'' the building back together would begin and take up to three days.
Once finished, the building would be able to accommodate up to 99 people and was expected to be ready for use in early October, two years and two months after the 1954 Luggate memorial hall was closed when it was assessed as a high earthquake risk.
The two halves of the new building were trucked from Christchurch on Sunday night but delayed a day by fog in the Lindis Pass.
It had been used as an office following the Christchurch earthquake and was bought by the Queenstown Lakes District Council for the Luggate community to use until a new hall was built.
Luggate Community Association deputy chairman Rod Anderson said it would be good to finally have somewhere for people to congregate.
''The 1954 Luggate memorial hall was used extensively for meetings, parties and a whole range of different community groups,'' he said.
''We have used the fire station for some community gatherings but this will be a real asset and a much-used stop-gap measure.''
Council property director Richard Pope said work was under way to assemble a design team for the permanent hall replacement and further community feedback would be sought for the operational aspects of the building.
