PRIME MERIDIAN OF GREENWICH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 2

PRIME MERIDIAN OF GREENWICH.

OBELISK FOR SUSSEX CLIFF,

■ Peacehaven has discovered a fallacy in the proposition that “East is east and V est is west, and never the twain shall meet, says the London Times East and west meet at Peacehaven,' among other places for the reason that 1 eacehaven straddles the prime meridian of Greenwich, from which longitude is reckoned.

Across the cliff top the imaginary line of the prime meridian was made visible some time ago as a strip of concrete. Hie idea has been developed by the re-' sidents, and there is to be erected soon on this spot an obelisk 20ft high which will be Peacehaven’s Silver Jubu lee memorial, and which will also be a sea-mark for at least some ships in the Channel when “crossing the line” of Greenwich.

"Hie ceremony of turning the fir sod on the site and unveiling a moSf “e memorial was performed bv '! C W. Neville, the lord of the mr Hie date chosen was the two hu and sixtieth anniversary of the of the first stone of the Royal vatory at Greenwich— which wa> :n '\ ed tor tho assistance of navic ,Si :u the instance of Charles 11.