CAMBRIDGE CLOCK TOWER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20977, 14 September 1931, Page 10

CAMBRIDGE CLOCK TOWER.

OBJECTION TO DEMOLITION. PRELIMINARY WORK COMMENCED. [rno.M ot;n own coriiksi-onimcnt. ] CAMBKI DC»E, Sat unlay. Not for many years has there been such .interest shown over a public matter as 11 to Postmaster-General's recent definite decision to demolish the post office clock tower. The matter had been under consideration for some considerable time, and much correspondence has passed between the Post and Telegraph and .Public Works Departments and the Cambridge Borough Council. People consider the departments have shown lack of consideration in goin<j ahead with tho demolition, in spite of the fact that, the Borough Council lias issued a protest. At the last meeting of the council, it, was decided to make application to the Supreme. Court for an injunction to restrain tho department from taking action until the matter whether the department should assist the council with the erection of the town's chiming clock on some i>lher site had been settled. The council was not unanimous on the action proposed. Workmen are now engaged on the preliminary demolition work. Tho tower was erected 25 years ago at, a cost of £565, the clock costing £6OO. A few years after the tower was erected, it developed cracks in tho upper portion just below the dome, and since (lie earthquakes, if was considered that the tower should be demolished. It is generally appreciated that the top portion of the tower is defective, but manv see no reason why tho top portion could not be taken off and rebuilt in wood or iron.