POST OFFICE CLOCK
Repairs for Bell Support
CHIMES CEASE FOR WEEK
The old clock on tiie General Post Office lias not chimed tiie hours since 4 o’clock on Friday afternoon. Tiie familiar tone of the big bell has been missed by citizens of Wellington and by a far larger audience, the thousands of radio listeners into whose homes the rich notes have been nightly conveyed by station 2YA. A defect lias been discovered in the cast-iron shackle which supports the two-ton bell in the tower. During the monthly Inspection on Friday the shackle was found to have developed a crack. A new part will have to be cast, and the clock will not chime again until Thursday. The shackle in which tiie defect has been"discovered is as old as the bell, which is upward of 50 years. With age, cast-iron lias the property of crystallisation, and this is thought to be the explanation of tiie crack.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 164, 9 April 1934, Page 8
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156POST OFFICE CLOCK Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 164, 9 April 1934, Page 8
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