PUBLIC TIME SYSTEM
Wanganui Installation ARRIVAL OF APPARATUS Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, June 9. After being without a town clock for about two years, welcome advice has been received that the electrical apparatus to operate clock faces in various parts of the city, and to ring the bells, is on the Rangitiki, due to arrive in New Zealand on July 5. Speaking to “The Dominion,” Mr. N G. Armstrong said that be anticipated seeing the whole installed and in working order some six weeks later. The cost of housing the machinery will be considerably lessened by utilising an old watch tower situated on Cook’s Gardens. It has been strengthened at the base, but as the engineer is not sure 05 the size of the machinery nothing more can be done until the parts are delivered in Wanganui. The cost of the electrical current used to work the clock and chimes would amount to some 30/- a year, said Mr. Armstrong, whereas the old clock cost 10/- a week to wind. No sale can be found for the old clock, but the chimes, familiar for 40 years to residents of the city, will be heard again. •
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 10
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