Sumner clock face repairs

Press, 29 May 1985, Page 2

Sumner clock face repairs

One of the Sumner clock tower’s four faces has been repaired, and the clock hands will be replaced after rock blasting is completed on the Scarborough Road cliff face this week. Municipal Electricity Department workmen are pictured plastering in the repaired face yesterday. Mr Pierre Jolidon, of the M.E.D.’s test section, has been looking after the city’s clocks since 1978. He said that the clock face had been cracked. The M.E.D. blacksmith and workshop staff helped with the repair job.

Sumner was not without a clock daring the work since the tower clock has three other faces. Mr Jolidon does general maintenance work on the clock about once a week. The Sumner tower and cloek were presented to the old Sumner Borough by Mr R. E. Green to perpetuate the name of his father, Edmund Green, a Canterbury pioneer who arrived in Christchurch in 1859 to install a telegraph system in the South Island. It was New Zealand’s first system.