A CONTRARY CLOCK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 4 October 1911, Page 4

A CONTRARY CLOCK.

A WAIL FROM WADESTOWN. Tho Wadesbowu (ram, like ft certain poii, has proved a boon and a blessing to men—and a.lso women—but since its institution there have been oocosions when ilics lmvo been discovered in tlic amber of appreciation, ajid among tie most recent is a grievance in regard to the tramway clock which occupies a position of ominonco at the present terminus at Pitt Street. This clock may not bo unusual in its habits in comparison with those of other Wellington tramway clocks, which aro supposed to bo a check 011 tho traffic officials, and perhaps a gnido to tilio travelling public, However tills may be, tho Wa<k*>loini people, who have been only teo relieved <0 give up Alpine climbing to onto 1 a chrysalis stage of municipal progress in regard to the village, caa lie excused for a present unsophisticated respect for such timepieecs when tlioy adjust their watches on arrival by it. Tlio clock, however, twins to have but lilttlo regard for tho ordinarv keeping of Greonwicli (into, or piwlxibiy tho I rouble over tho "rooter" may be direonc«rti.ii(f it; anyway its unfortunate adherents aro finding out that their nlkgi.mm is very often inispktted. They subsequently nrrivo along 111* Wie [mint of departure in Wndes.town, and have often found recently Uiat tho hill-top time ami that of the Weihlisivm mctormen disai?rcc to the extent ol four or five minutes to their d'iaidvantaKo. Off times the clock stops work altogether, but perhaps that may fco in aocwrdtuiTO with some award. lint 0110 Jlit: to be coiisideivd is this: Waderstowu litis now assisted in Ihe composition of a Greater Wel 1 and still many citissons of the previous .Smaller Wellington aver that c\*ieh Wndestown tram that runs involves them in a fractional penny locs 011 every pasi-vngrr. Therefore it nuiv not bo ton much to ask that these people should form a deputation to the corporation authorities to request that a wayward clock should be regulated and Micro. »y v(1 many would-be revenue contributor from being compelled to pursue 013 podestnans a pretty lownwurd road, enlaced by the hoots of tho mopoko alia tho whisperings of tho springtimo-