CITY CLOCKS A FAST

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 16 April 1936, Page 10

CITY CLOCKS A FAST

ONLY TWO SHOW COR] TIME

MARGIN GENERALLY SMI

How many persons in C] church make their way to offices by the time shown bj

many clocks about the city, and many depend on the signals | at intervals over the wireless the correctness of their time? T

who depend on the former me probably find themselves at 1 offices a few minutes early„ for i two public clocks near the ce of the city give the correct tim A reporter from "The Press" s\ part of yesterday afternoon ti elling about the city checking on the time in various localii By observatory time only ,1

clocks were correct, but most er on the right side, and helped preventing workers from be late. Complaints that the clo about the city are never correct generally well founded, but margin is small. Only one prom ently displayed clock was-' behi time, and that only one minute. Workers cycling or walking ,p the Edmonds memorial clock fl they have a certain time to get their offices, but when they rea the Municipal Electricity Depai ment's giant clock they find, th have lost a minute, and they hast to the Square, where the Post Qfft clock and the tramways elocljai at variance by two minutes. _Tj tramways clock is one of the t* correct ones, and that on the Po

Office was two minutes fast yestes day afternoon. The other correl one is the Edmonds memorial tibcl Those coming from the of Opawa and Woolston yesterda found the High street clock one minute fast, and w, th south-west direction the ".W& Christchurch High. School clock wa one minute ahead of time. Other cloclcs about the city wer one or two minutes fast, the**m|' great error being shown vately owned clock in Mancraip street which was 20 minutes.-iK