THE TOWN CLOCK.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3904, 12 May 1877, Page 2

THE TOWN CLOCK.

Sir, — Allow me to oiler a few remarks on the suggestions of your correspondent "An Inhabitant," in your issue of this morning. A pillar such us he proposes would scarcely be suitable, for the following reasons : — l. It would sway about in strong winds to such an extent as to be liable to damage the clock. 2. In case of an oarUujuako, it would be sure to come down with a — vulgo r.ocato — run. To supplement any extra expense that may bo incurred by building the pillar or making the clock a four-dial one, by public subscription, would be a poor compliment to the late Sir Donald M'Lean, for the clock would not then be his gift, but he would merely be one of the subscribers — the largest, perhaps — to it. In fact,, it would be placing Sir Donald in the ridiculous position that the president of a board of guardians once placed himself. He presented an illuminated clock to the workhouse, and then asked the "Board to vote a sum to fix the said clock in position, and to }'dace an eulogistic inscription concerning himself below it. From the general tone of his letter, I am sure that ' ' An Inhabitant" would not desire this. — I am. &c, De Insula, May 11, 1877.