THE CLOCK TOWER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19972, 5 July 1930, Page 19

THE CLOCK TOWER.

TO THE EDITOB Of THE PRESS Sir _I hope you are not banning letters yet about the Clock Tower. It seems a great pity that the present City Council should decide to shift the Clock Tower, as it could have stayed there a few more years, and do no harm." A new clock would not cost so much of the ratepayers' money as the Council are spending in shifting all that stone work.. , Since the tower has to go, what I would like to know is this. What is the Council going to do with the bullion, which the then. Mayor, Mr W. H. Cooper, placed somewhere in the foundation stone? As the tower has to be demolished, could not those coins and papers be put up to auction, and the proceeds given to the unemployed or deserving case" l of want? Cr. Jones would be a good man to boost up the price. I was there at the laying of the foundation stone 33 years ago, and there are many citizens in Christchurch who would buy those coins as mementoes of a historic foundation ceremony. Mr W. 11. Cooper is somewhere about, and lie will no doubt wonder why the fountain is being shifted so soon. However, Sir, I hope you will keep an eve on the coins. Yours, etc., y H. H. CLIFFORD. July 4th, 1930.