DARGAVILLE TOWN CLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18550, 7 November 1923, Page 10

DARGAVILLE TOWN CLOCK.

MEMORIAL TO SOLDIERS.

[BT telegraph.—-OWN CORRESPONDENT ] DARGAVILLE. Tuesday.

A presentation of a town clock, to be housed in the post office tower, has been made by Mr. G. N. Hayes, as a memorial to his late partner. Mr. Charles Darling, who fell in the Great War, and to the soldiers from Northern Wairoa. The clock will have four dials and will strike hours, a 4cwt. bell being supplied for that purpose The Postmaster-General, Hon. J. G. Coatcs, in a telegram to the Mayor, states that the clock will probably be installed in about nine months' time. The residents are delighted with the gift, but it is pointed out that the present tower is much too low to allow the clock faces to be seen, excepting by those in the close vicinity. A movement, therefore, is on foot to ascertain the best means of having the tower raised sufficiently to allow it to be seen. from almost any portion of the town. A suggestion that is receiving much support is that, in the event of the department undertaking the necessary alterations, the addition of another storey to the post office should be undertaken so as to enable several Government departments to be housed under one roof.