POST OFFICE CLOCK

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23919, 10 April 1943, Page 6

POST OFFICE CLOCK

Sir,—Citizens are well aware that the Post Office clock is owned by the City Council. Unfortunately the council does not appear eager to assert its authority and have the matter of lighting attended to. A reasonable suggestion is that certain officials of the Electricity Department be given a trip to Timaru to see the splendid way in which the town clock is floodlit, and inspect the main street, taking particular notice of the absence of poles and wires, and the utilisation of buildings and verandas to place bracket lamps which so illumine the area that Christchurch is gloomy in contrast.— Yours, etc., . T. NUTTALL. Aplrjl 9, 1943. Sir,—l am inclined to agree with 'T.D.A.’s” statement, which appeared in your issue of April 8, about lighting up of the Post Office clock. Mr Hitchcock, general manager of the M.E.D., endeavours to clarify the matter by stating that a high tension supply could not jafely be taken into a building. Why i$ it then that the clock was always lit up before the black-out restrictions came into force? If it could be don? then, it can be done now. The ratepayer? have to pay their quota for street lighting, and it is up to them to demand the lighting up of the city clock.—Yours, etc., TIME. PLEASE. April 8, 1945.