WOOLSTON CLOCK

Press, Volume C, Issue 29671, 15 November 1961, Page 11

WOOLSTON CLOCK

Soon To Go Again

The clock cm the old Woolston Poet Office, which stopped after the new office was opened cm November 3, win soon be going again As a temporary measure, the Bost Office has given access to the old building to the Christchruch City Council, which owns the clock, so that it can be wound. The arrangement to only temporary, however, as the dock will probably have to be removed eventually from the aid office and the department to not willing to have it fixed to the I new office.

"We have had representations from several people in Wboiston since toe clock stopped, and it certainly seems to fulfil a need,” the Assistant Town Clerk (Mr M. B. Hayes) said yesterday. "We are prepared to keep it wound now that we have been promised access to the building. “I do not know where the clock can be put eventually. Someone has suggested putting it outside the library in Woolston, but I can’t visualise how it would be fixed.” The Chief Poetmaster (Mr C. J. C. Simpson) said that tl*e clock bad always been wound up by the Woolston Post Office staff while the old building wee occupied, but he did not think the onus was on the department to keep it going once the new building was opened. The new office had a clock of Its own in the foyer, and, moreover, the style of the old clock would not blend with that of the new building. A tower might be built to house it, be suggested, or he would be prepared to recommend that the clock should be transferred to the Ferry road Post Office, which was in much the same style as the old Woolston office. No decision had yet been made on the future of the old office, Mr Simpson added, but it could well be that the building would pass out of the control of his department.