PUBLIC TIME SYSTEM.
WANGANUI INSTALLATION.
ARRIVAL OF APPARATUS
(Special to the “Guardian.”)
WANGANUI, June JO
After being without a town clock for about two years, welcome advice lias been received that the electrical apparatus to operate clock laces in various parts of the city, and to ring the bells, is on the Rangitiki, due to arrive in New Zealand on July 5.
Speaking to “The Dominion,” Mr N. G. Armstrong said that lie anticipated seeing the whole installed and in working order some six weeks later. The cost of housing the machinery will he considerably lessened by utilising an old watch tower situated on Cook’s Gardens. It has been strengthened at the base, but as the engineer is not sure of the size of the machinery nothing more can be done until the parts are delivered in Wanganui. The cost of the electrical current Used to work the clqck and chimes would amount to some 30s a year, said Mr Armstrong, whereas the old clock cost 10s a week to wind. No sale can be found for the old. clock, but the chimes, familiar for <lO years to residents of the city, will be hoard again.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 207, 14 June 1933, Page 3
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